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having been very greatly below the average for each of the first
twenty weeks. Then there was a change in the figures: the
mortality rose above the average and continued to be in excess
to the very end of the year." Our local experience, as
before shewn, was different, the mortality having been
greatest in the early part of the year.
FEVER.
No death was registered from Typhus Fever, and
only two from Simple Continued Fever, the deaths from Enteric
Fever, moreover, being only eleven, the same number as in 1886,
and just half the corrected decennial average (22.4). Two only of
the deaths were registered in the Town sub-district, and nine in
Brompton. Four of the deaths took place in hospitals, to
which fifteen patients were removed. The recorded cases were
27; ten in North Kensington (all of which were removed to
hospital) and seventeen in South Kensington, the Uxbridge
Road being the dividing line.
The deaths in London from enteric fever in 1887
shew a diminution of 247, compared with annual deaths
in 1877-86, without correction for increase of population.
There were only 18 deaths from typhus, and
48 from simple and ill-defined fever. "The deaths from
these diseases and enteric fever, which year by year have been
decreasing, fell still further in number in 1887, and amounted
only to 672, whereas had the proportion to the population been
as high as the previous decennial average, the number of deaths
would have been 1,134. Thus the mortality from these continued
fevers was no less than 41 per cent. below the decennial
average."
DIARRHŒA.
DiarrhŒa was the cause of 124 deaths, 110 in the Town
sub-district, and 14 in Brompton. This number was thirty-
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