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The population of Thurstan, and Holland Buildings, is
260 people—130 adults and 30 children.
There were two births during the year, both in Holland
Buildings, and 3 deaths—2 adults and 1 child.
The birth-rate was equal to 7.6 per 1,000, and the deathrate
to 11.5 per 1,000.
The one zymotic death from measles was equal to a rate
of 3.8 per 1,000.
Deaths in Certain Classes of Diseases,
1.—Specific, Febrile, or Zymotic Diseases.
This class of diseases comprises six orders, viz., 1 miasmatic,
2 diarrhoea, 3 malarial, 4 zoogenous, 5 venereal, and
6 septic.
The first and second orders include the diseases, which
the Registrar-General describes as the seven principal
diseases, considered to be more or less of a preventable
character.
In St. Giles District, the deaths in 1894 from these
infectious diseases were 80, corresponding to a zymotic
death-rate of 2.0 per 1,000, a rate slightly below that of
the previous year.
In Registration London, these diseases caused 11,467
deaths, equal to a rate of 2.6 per 1,000, against 3.1 in 1893.
In England and Wales these deaths numbered 52,771,
and were equal to a rate of 176 per 1,000.