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In Table V. will be found a comparison of the deaths occurring in
the Sanitary District of Woolwich during the years 1896, 1897 and
1898, distinguishing those under 5 years of age and those over 5 years
of age.
Zymotic
Death Rate.
The deaths from all causes during the year included 53
from Measles, 5 from Scarlet Fever, 38 from Diarrhoea, 20
from Diphtheria, 24 from Whooping Cough, 8 from Typhoid Fever, 11
from Influenza, 1 from Erysipelas and 2 from Puerperal Fever; in all
148 deaths from diseases classified by the Registrar General as Specific
Febrile or Zymotic. This is equivalent to a Zymotic death-rate of 3 5
per thousand.
This high rate is due to the increased mortality from Measles and
Whooping Cough, the fatal cases of which numbered respectively 53
and 24, as compared with 1 and 8 in 1897. The deaths from Typhoid
Fever are also slightly in excess of those in 1897 when their number
was 3. Deaths from Scarlet Fever, Diarrhoea and Diphtheria have
fallen from 8, 47, and 34 respectively.
The Zymotic death-rate for the past seven years is as follows: —
1892 2.4
1893 2.6
1894 2.6
1895 1.8
1896 4.2
1897 2.7
1898 3.5
Phthisis
Mortality,
&c.
In Table I., Class IV., 118 deaths are recorded as
arising from some form of tubercular disease, of which
number, 61 occurred in the Dockyard Registration Sub-District, and 57
in the Arsenal Registration Sub-District. The corresponding figures in
1897 were 37 and 63 respectively, so that the marked excess in the
Arsenal Sub-District to which I referred in my last report, was in the
year just passed converted into a slight excess in the Dockyard SubDistrict.