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Mortality from the Principal Zymotic Diseases.
Small.Pox, Measles, Scarlet Fever, Diphtheria,
Whooping.Cough, Fever: (Typhoid, Typhus, and
Simple Continued), and Diarrhœa.
The number of deaths from these diseases in England
and Wales was 58,239, and equal to a death.rate of 2.23
per 1,000.
Of the 81,071 deaths from all causes registered in London,
13,906, or 17.2 per cent., were ascribed to some or other
of the chief zymotic diseases. The death.rate from these
collectively was 3.64 per 1,000, which was below the
average.
The number of deaths from these diseases in St. Giles'
district was 142, equal to a death.rate of 3.l per 1,000, and
below the decennial average.
The Registrar.General states in his annual summary" that
the most notable feature in the zymotic mortality for the
year was the high death.rate from small.pox. The deaths
from this disease were 2,371, giving a rate of 0.62 per 1,000.
Only on seven occasions had this rate been exceeded in the
previous 43 years, and the prevalence of this disease was
the more remarkable inasmuch as neither the rest of*
England and Wales nor any other of the large towns was
similarly affected."
* In the Quarterly Return of Marriages, Births, and Deaths of England
and Wales registered during January, February, and March, 1882, the
Registrar.General remarks, "that while small.pox has been gradually
declining in London and its immediate neighbourhood for the past four
quarters, it has been simultaneously increasing in the rest of England and
Wales."