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Penge), 13.2 in St. George Hanover Square and in Lee,
13 4 in Wandsworth, 13.7 in Plumstead, and 14.3 in Stoke
Newington; the highest rates were 231 in Holborn, 23 7
in St. George Southwark, 24.6 in St. Saviour Southwark,
251 in Limehouse, 25 7 in St. Luke, and 26.4 in St. George.
in.the.East.
During the year under notice 11,453 deaths resulted from
the principal zymotic diseases in London ; of these 4,089
were referred to diarrhœa, 2,240 to diphtheria, 1,927 to
measles, 1,837 to whooping.cough, 778 to scarlet fever,
566 to different forms of " fever" (including 1 to typhus,
557 to enteric fever, and 8 to simple and ill.defined forms
of fever), and 16 to small.pox. These 11,453 deaths were
equal to a rate of 2 56 per 1,000, against 2.64, 2 62, and
311 in the three preceding years; this rate was lower than
that recorded in any year since 1391, and was 018 per
1,000 below the mean rate in the ten preceding years,
1887.96. In the various sanitary areas the zymotic death.
rates ranged from 110 in St. George Hanover Square, 1.16
in Hampstead, 1.19 in St. Martin.in.the.Fields, 143 in
Lee, 1.61 in Marylebone, and 163 in St. Giles to 3 61 in
Clerkenwell, 3 66 in St. Saviour Southwark, 3 82 in St.
Luke, 4.07 in Shoreditch, 4 27 in St. George.in.the.East,
and 435 in St. George Southwark and in Bermondsey.
Compared with the averages in the ten preceding years
the mortality from small.pox, measles, scarlet fever, and
" fever " was below the average, while that from diphtheria
and from diarrhoea showed an excess. The 16 fatal cases
of small.pox registered in London during 1897 exceeded
by 7 the number in the preceding year, and included 5
which belonged to Camberwell. 2 to Strand, and 2 to
Greenwich sanitary areas. During the year under notice
86 cases of small.pox were admitted into the Metropolitan
Asylums Hospitals, all of which were admitted during the
first seven months of the year; and no patients have been
under treatment in these hospitals since August last.
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