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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.
Diarrhoea.
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 9b, and Tables Nos. 10a
and 10b, and as compared as follows :—
Phthisis.— This disease, the type of the tubercular group of diseases, was the
cause of 376 deaths compared to 401 deaths in 1906. 353 in 1905. and 440 in
the year previous to that.