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CAUSES OF DEATH.
Notifiable Infectious Diseases.
Small-pox.
Scarlatina or Scarlet fever.
Diphtheria or Membranous Croup.
Typhus Fever
Typhoid or Enteric Fever.
Continued Fever.
Relapsing Fever.
Puerperal Fever.
Cholera.
Erysipelas.
Plague.
Chicken-pox.
Principal Zymotic Diseases.
Small-pox.
Scarlet Fever.
Diphtheria.
Typhus Fever.
Enteric Fever.
Continued Fever.
Measles.
Whooping Cough.
Diarrhœa.
Dysentery.
At the end of the Report, in Table 7c, will be found set out the number of
deaths under 5 years of age and 5 years upwards, from each of the Notifiable
Infectious Diseases in the respective Registration Sub-Districts, and the entire
District of St. Pancras. In Table 8, in a similar manner, the deaths from the
non-notifiable "principal zymotic diseases" will be found set out. From these
two Tables the mortality of the respective diseases, and of each of the groups,
have been obtained, as shown in Tables Nos. 9a and b, and Tables Nos. 10a
and b, and as compared as follows:—
Phthisis.—This disease, the type of the tubercular group of diseases, was the
cause of 401 deaths compared to 353 deaths in 1905, 440 in 1904, and 426 in
the year previous to that. The incidence of this disease in the Sub-Districts
were as follows:—
Sub-Districts.
Number.
Per 1000
Population.
Per cent. of
Total Deaths.
West 99 1.60 10.1
South 107 1.91 11.9
East 110 1.84 10.9
North 85 1.43 9.8
St. Pancras 401 1.69 10.7
London 6770 1.43 9.5