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Mortality from Certain Classes of Diseases.
I. SEVEN PRINCIPAL ZYMOTIC DISEASES.
Small-Pox, Measles, Scarlet Fever, Diphtheria, Whooping-
Cough, Fever and Diarrhcea.
Number of deaths from these diseases in England and Wales,
82,537, and equal to a death-rate of 3.22 per 1,000.
Number of deaths from these diseases in the metropolis, 13,681,
and equal to a death-rate of 3'7 per 1,000.
Number of deaths from these diseases in St. Giles District, 190,
and equal to a death-rate of 3.55 per 1,000.
Small Pox (decennial average, 14.0).—The deaths by small-pox in
London, which were 2,544 in 1871, 1,416 in 1878, 458 in 1879, were
475 in 1880.
The annual rate of mortality from small-pox to 10,000, living in the
30 years, 1841—70, was 3.1, but owing to the severe epidemic of
1871—2, it rose in the nine years, 1871—9 to 4.9. No parishioners
of St. Giles died from it in 1879, and only 10 mild cases were removed
to hospital. The District was reported to be free from the disease
from August, 1879, until the end of February, 1880, when it re-appeared
in Betterton Street, Drury Lane; from that date until the end of the
year, 9 persons were attacked and removed to Fulham and Stockwell
Hospitals, where 3 died.
The 9 patients (6 adults and 3 children) resided in the following
places, viz.:—
2 in Betterton Street.
1 in New Compton Street.
1 in Newton Street.
1 in Store Street.
1 in Keppel Mews, North.
1 in Marchmont Street.
1 in Gate Street.
1 in Little Coram Street.
The following return will show the monthly admission of vaccinated,
doubtfully vaccinated, and unvaccinated small-pox patients from this
district into hospitals belonging to the Asylum Board daring
the year 1880.