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The death rate from Zymotic diseases was 4.4, against 3.7 last year.
The corresponding rates for London were 3.3 in 1884 and 2.7
in 1883.
In the following table is shewn the percentage of each as compared
with the total number of Zymotic deaths.
TABLE F.
Small Pox
17.13 per cent., or
1 in 5.83 deaths.
Measles
6.40 "
" 15.62"
Scarlatina
17.30"
"5.78"
Diphtheria
2.42"
" 41.29 "
Whooping Cough
24.56"
"4.07 "
Typhus Fever
0,69"
"14.50"
Enteric Fever
7.44"
" 3.44 „
Simple Fever
0.34"
"289.OO ,,
Diarrhoea
23.70"
„ 4.21 „
SMALL POX.
(Decennial average, 36.6).
The number of cases of Small Pox reported to us during the year
was 679; of these 658 were removed to hospitals, where 73 died and
69 remained still under treatment at the end of the year.
The total deaths from Small Pox, including Hospital cases, were 99,
of these 23 had been vaccinated, 41 were unvaccinated, and the
vaccination of 35 was doubtful; that is to say, either no statement as
to the fact of vaccination was made by the medical attendant or the
marks left by the operation were so slight as to be invisible. The
sufferers were therefore practically unvaccinated; for vaccination which
leaves no scar is not of much avail against the contagion of Small Pox.
Most of the cases reported to us were removed by the relieving officer,
and in no instance was it necessary to take proceedings for compulsory
removal.
Of the cases treated at home, either the surroundings and means of
isolation were such that I felt sure no magistrate would make a compulsory
order, or the fact of the existence of the disease was concealed
from us until convalescence; but in almost every instance when cases