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Parish of Wandsworth.
121
Six deaths from zymotic diseases occurred in the
Union Infirmary (two from Measles, one from Whooping
Cough, one from Influenza, one from Puerperal Fever,
and one from Erysipelas) five in General or Special
Hospital (one from Whooping Cough, one from Influenza,
and three from Diarrhoea), and 17 in the hospitals
of the Metropolitan Asylums Board (six from Scarlet
Fever, four from Diphtheria, and seven from Enteric
Fever), a total of 28, compared with 21 in 1899. In
addition to the above there were five deaths in the
Union Infirmary registered from Enteritis and one from
blood poisoning, two in General or Special Hospitals
from other Septic diseases, and one in a Metropolitan
Asylums Board Hospital from a Septic disease.
In internal institutions three deaths from Enteric
Fever, two from Influenza, and one from Diarrhoea
occurred in the Middlesex Lunatic Asylum, two from
Influenza in the Hospital for Incurables, one from
Enteric Fever and one from Influenza in the Prison, a
total of 10. There were also two deaths from Enteritis
and one from another Septic disease in the Middlesex
Lunatic Asylum, and one from Enteritis in the Prison.
For comparison with former years the deaths
from Enteritis and other Septic diseases are omitted
from the above group, and included in another.
Corrected for institutions the number of deaths
from zymotic diseases was 175, compared with 172 in
1899, 229 in 1898, 161 in 1897, and 218 in 1896.
The corrected zymotic death-rate for the year was
2'65 per 1,000, compared with 2.73 in 1899, 3 81 in
1898, and 2.8 in 1897.
Exclusive of Influenza this death-rate was 2.14 per