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280
premature birth or defective vitality, and to convulsions of
infancy, collectively numbered 557, or 113 more than in
1891. To childbirth 35 deaths were attributed, which is
2 in excess of the return for the previous year, and of these
8 are reported to have died of puerperal fever. Forty persons
were stated to have died of erysipelas, carbuncle, or pyæmia,,
against 32 in 1891.
Tubercular diseases, including pulmonary consumption,
caused 656 deaths, and cancer 158, against 671 and 154
respectively in the previous year.
Inflammatory affections of the respiratory organs caused
993 deaths, or 191 less than in 1891, and diarrhœal affections
169, or 27 more than in 1891.
The mortalitv due to the so-called " zymotic " diseases
showed, for the most part, a decided increase on that of the
previous year. For the details in reference to these affections
I must refer not only to Table IX. and X., but also to
Table XI. which displays the annual mortality due to these
diseases ever since the constitution of the Vestrv at the
beginning of 1856, and to Table XII., in which the mortality
of the same diseases is shown quarter by quarter for the last
six years.
Hooping cough caused 128 deaths against 123 in 1891
and 191 in 1890. It prevailed chiefly in the first quarter of
the year, when it caused 69 deaths. It caused 27 deaths
in Camberwell, 60 in Peckham, and 41 in St. George's.
Measles caused 189 deaths, against 67 in 1891 and 163
in 1890. It was chiefly fatal in the second and third quarters
of the year, and caused 1 death in Dulwich, 53 in Camberwell,
76 in Peckham, and 59 in St. George's.