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*Excluding Penge.
Influenza, Bronchitis and Pneumonia.
The year 1892 was characterised by marked excess of deaths from influenza and pneumonia.
The deaths attributed to influenza represent but a proportion of the deaths directly due to this
malady. Its effects are especially noticeable in the increased mortality from pneumonia and bronchitis
during the weeks of influenza prevalence. But during the year 1892 there has also been increase of
deaths from other causes possibly related to influenza; the number of deaths of infants from premature
birth was 2,394, the corrected average for the preceding 10 years being 2,083.6, the number of deaths
from suicide was 450, the corrected average of the preceding 10 years being 393.8.
In 1890, when 652 deaths occurred which were attributed to influenza, four deaths were attributed
to the disease in the 1st week, 67 in the 2nd, 127 in the 3rd, when the disease attained its maximum ;
in succeeding weeks 105, 75 and 38 deaths from influenza were registered, and the disease gradually
subsided, only one or more deaths occurring in almost every other week of the year.
In 1891 the deaths rose to 2,336, and occurred chiefly in May and June, the greatest number of
deaths (319) being registered in the 20th week (ending May 23rd). In December the number of deaths
began again to increase, the number registered in successive weeks in that month being 9, 8, 17, 19
and 37.
In 1892, 2,264 deaths attributed to influenza were registered. The number increased in successive
weeks until the maximum was attained in the 3rd week (ending January 23rd), when 506 deaths were
registered. From this time the number of deaths decreased, but a small number occurred in almost
every one of the remaining weeks to the end of the year.
The number of deaths from bronchitis was 11,183, and from pneumonia 6,164. The corrected
annual average for the preceding ten years being respectively 11,230.0 and 5,171.9. The number of
deaths from these diseases has been much influenced by the prevalence of influenza, as will be seen from
the. following tables—