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pared with 1.9 per 1,000 in the previous year, and an average of
3.0 per 1,000 during the preceding five years.
The deaths of persons between 15 and 25 years numbered 21,
representing a death-rate of 3 9 per 1,000 living at those ages, as
compared with 2 3 in 1895, and an average of the same number
during the preceding five years. The increased mortality at
these ages in 1896 was due to a larger number of deaths from
pulmonary consumption.
The deaths of persons of 25 years of age and upwards numbered
187, representing a death-rate of 14.7 per 1,000 living at
those ages, as compared with 16.8 in 1895, and an average of
15.4 per 1,000 during the preceding five years.
III.—CAUSES OF DEATH.
Zymotic Diseases.—The deaths registered in 1896 included—
18 deaths attributed to Measles
18 „ ,, Diarrhoea
13 „ „ Whooping Cough
5 „ „ Diphtheria
5 „ „ " Fever"
Thus 59 deaths were ascribed to these diseases, which with
scarlet fever and small pox, constitute the "seven principal zymotic
diseases." The number of deaths is in the proportion of 2.01 per
1,000 living, such being the zymotic death-rate, as compared with
1T6 in 1895, and an annual average during the preceding 10
years of 168 per 1,000.
The corresponding rate in England and Wales was 2.18 per
1,000, as compared with an annual average during the preceding
10 years of 2.15 per 1,000.
Deaths from one or other of the above diseases occurred in
every parish except Addington and Morden, and 45 of them
occurred at Mitcham, which number corresponds to a zymotic