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66
preceding years, being equivalent to 27 per cent. of total
deaths.
The number of deaths of old people occurred at the following
advanced ages:—
142 between 60 and 70 years of age.
Ill „ 70 and 80 „ „
36 „ 80 and 90 „ „
2 at 90 years of age.
2 „ 91 „
1 „ 92 „
_L „ 94 „
Total 295
41 of the deaths were certified to have been from " old
age," i.e., not to have been caused by disease but from
decay of nature.
The diseases which caused the greatest fatality amongst
the aged were diseases of the lungs and bronchitis 109,
diseases of the brain, paralysis and senile dementia 50,
diseases of the heart 25, cancer 17, and influenza 12.
Mortality from the Principal Zymotic Diseases.
The seven principal zymotic diseases are small-pox,
measles, scarlet-fever, diphtheria, whooping-cough, fever
(which includes enteric, typhus and simple continued forms
of fever) and diarrhoea.
In London there were 9,588 deaths registered from these
diseases, equal to a death-rate of 2.2 per 1,000; this mortality
was the lowest on record.
In England and Wales, 53,221 deaths were attributed to
these diseases, corresponding to a rate of 1.83 per 1,000 living