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Principal Zymotic Diseases.
The number of deaths in the Administrative County of London from the principal zymotic
diseases, viz., smallpox, measles, scarlet fever, diphtheria, typhus, enteric and ill-defined fevers,
and diarrhoea during 1898, was 12,511, giving an annual death-rate of 2.77 per 1,000 living. The
death-rates since 1890 have been as follows—
year Death-rate from principal zymotic diseases.
1891 2.271
1892 2.801
1893 3.041
1894 2.651
1895 2.621
1896 3.111
1897 2.561
1898 2.771
It will be seen from the following table that London, in the period 1888-97, had a lower
death-rate than any of the undermentioned towns, except Leeds, Bristol, Nottingham, Bradford,
and Hull, and in 1898 a lower death-rate than any, except Birmingham, Bristol, Nottingham,
Bradford, and West Ham—

The following table shows that the London death-rate from the first six of these principal
zymotic diseases, viz., small-pox, measles, scarlet fever, diphtheria, whooping-cough, and fever,
was, in 1888-97, higher than that of any of the undermentioned foreign towns, except St. Petersburg
and New York, and in 1898 was onlv exceeded bv that of St. Petersburg—

1 See footnote ('), pa e 3. " See footnote (*), page 3.