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politan rate (20.7), which in turn was 3.3 below the average.
The deaths from the principal diseases of the zymotic class
(including 9 from whooping cough) were 15, or 13 below
the average. Mean temperature 44°.0; average of ten years
42°.1.
In the fourth period (13th-16th weeks—March 23 to April
19) the death rate, 14.7, was 5.9 below the average, and 6.0
below the Metropolitan rate (20.7), which, again, was 3.5 below
the average. The deaths from the principal diseases of the
zymotic class (including 7 from whooping cough), were 13,
being 16 below the average. Mean temperature 45°.2, or 0.2
below the decennial average.
In the fifth period (17th-20th weeks—April 20 to May 17)
the death rate fell to 14.3, being 2.8 below the average, and 6.7
below the Metropolitan rate (21.0), which, again, was 0.2 below
the average. The deaths from the principal diseases of the
zymotic class were 21, or 2 below the average. Five cases of
small-pox were recorded in this period, four of them in North
Kensington, i.e., to the North of the Uxbridge Road. The mean
temperature was 49°.5; average of ten years 49°.1.
In the sixth period (21st-24th weeks—May 18 to June 14)
there was a slight rise in the death rate to 15.5, but the rate was
1.2 below the average, and 3.3 below the Metropolitan rate (18'8),
this in turn being 0.6 below the decennial average. The deaths
from the principal diseases of the zymotic class (including 9
from whooping-cough and 4 from enteric fever) were 23, being
9 below the average. In this period small-pox reappeared in the
parish in a fatal form, two deaths having been registered; 38
cases of the disease were recorded, of which 28 occurred in South
Kensington, i.e., to the South of the Uxbridge Road. The
Western (Fulham) Hospital was reopened to small-pox cases on
May 17. The mean temperature during the four weeks was
54.°9, or 1°.5 below the average.
In the seventh period (25th-28th weeks—June 15 to July 12)
the death rate further rose to 15.8, and was above the decennial
average (to the extent of 0.3 only) for the first and only time in