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ZYMOTIC DISEASE.
The deaths from the seven principal diseases of the Zymotic class during
the year have been 388, against 598 for last year, a deorease of 210.
The numbers of each are shewn below contrasted with the previous
year:—
1875.6.
1876-7.
Small Fox
1
31
Measles
90
56
Scarlet Fever
127
80
Diphtheria
14
3
Whooping Cough
184
61
Fever
51
42
Diarrhoea
119
112
Cholera
12
3
598
388
This gives a Zymotic death rate of 3.0 per 1000, one person in every
333.2 having fallen a victim to one or other of these diseases; the corresponding
death rate for the whole of London being 3.5. The following
table shews the per centage of each one on the total number of deaths
from the different Zymotic diseases:—
Small Pox 7.98 per cent., or 1 in 12.51 deaths.
Measles 14.43 „ ,, 6.92 „
Scarlatina 20.61 „ „ 4.85 „
Diphtheria 0.77 „ „ 129.33 „
Whooping Cough 15.72 „ „ 6.34 „
Fever 10.79 „ „ 9.23 „
Diarrhoea 28.86 „ „ 3.46 „
Cholera 0.77 „ „ 120.33 „
The only one of the seven shewing any increase is small pox, from
which the number of deaths in the parish were 31, but to this must be
added 22 more, as that number of deaths occurred amongst persons
removed from Bethnal Green to the various Metropolitan Small Pox
Hospitals for treatment, bringing up the number of deaths to 53. Of