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18 ON THE SANITARY CONDITION OF
were notified in St. Anne's parish, 15 in the Strand subdistrict.
One case in both proved eventually not to be
enteric fever. The number of deaths were 2 and 4
respectively, equal to a rate of 0.24 per 1,000 inhabitants
of the district. Six of the cases occurred in the early
part of the year, and were part of the previous year's
outbreak. 7 of the cases contracted the disease out of
the district; in 4 no source was traceable; in 9 cases,
defective conditions of drainage were discovered in the
houses in which the cases then were; in 3 cases, the
disease was attributed to eating shell-fish.
Principal Diseases of the Zymotic Class.
The Registrar-General classifies small-pox, scarlet
fever, measles, diphtheria, whooping-cough, fevers
(typhus, enteric and continued)-and diarrhoea under this
heading. The Zymotic death-rates for London and the
Strand District were 2 64 and 2'01 respectively per
1,000 of the population.
Compared with the averages in the ten preceding
years, the mortality from small-pox, measles, scarlet
fever, whooping-cough, and "fever" throughout London,
was below the average, while that from diphtheria and
from diarrhoea showed an excess.
Measles was prevalent in the District in the early
part of the year, but the deaths were fewer than the
average throughout London, being 0.24 in the Strand,
0.60 in London.
Whooping Cough caused only three deaths in 1895,
in this District. The London death rate of 0.34 per
1,000 living is the lowest ever recorded, the nearest
approach thereto being 0.41 in 1883.