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Ward Distributions.
The deaths were distributed as follows:—
North-East North-West. South-East. South-West.
137 135 122 293
Based upon the estimated population given on a preceding page,
the death-rate of each ward per 1,000 inhabitants would be
North-East. North-West. South-East. South-West.
10.5 per 1,000. 12.3 per 1,000. 11 per 1,000. 17.2 per 1,000.
On Table IV. will be found the number of deaths in each ward
from the different diseases, and it will be observed that the excessive
mortality in the South-West Ward is confined to 5 diseases—Measles,
Diarrhoea, Phthisis, Pneumonia and Bronchitis. The three former
diseases are dealt with separately, and the five reflect the influence of
poverty upon the death-rate. When one reflects on the various
causes productive of ill-health, and of that more intense form which
ends in death, the influence of poverty, and more particularly of unsettled
poverty, loom larger and larger. The death-rates of those inhabitants
who end their lives in the Union Infirmary may be taken
as one of the indices of poverty, and the following figures are significant.
Forty-four deaths occurred in Isleworth Infirmary; of these, 8
belonged to the North-East Ward, 5 to North-West, 2 to South-East.
and 29 to the South-West. The death-rate per 1.000 amongst persons
dying in the Infirmary for the several Wards would be:
North-East .6
North-West .5
South-East .2
South-West 1.7
ZYMOTIC DISEASES.
Deaths 124. Death-rate 2.3.
The so-called Zymotic death-rate includes deaths from the seven
Zymotic diseases, namely Small-pox, Measles, Whooping Cough,
Scarlet Fever. Diphtheria. "Fever," and Diarrhoea.
With the exception of Small-pox, these diseases are dealt with
in separate paragraphs.