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50, which yield a zymotic death-rate of 0.48 per 1,000 population. Including deaths
from enteritis under two years this rate is increased to 0.54 per 1,000. A comparison
of the zymotic death-rates of London and Shoreditch and the eight Wards of the
Borough is given in Table VI. (Appendix). The rate was highest in Wenlock and
lowest in Moorfields.
The cases of scarlet fever, diphtheria, erysipelas, enteric fever and puerperal
fever and pyrexia, numbered 961, as compared with 28,990 for the Metropolis ;
the attack-rates were 9-2 for Shoreditch and 6.4 per 1,000 population for London.