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Deaths and Death Rate from Zymotic Diseases.
343 deaths were due to the seven principal Zymotic
Diseases, viz.:—
Smallpox —
Scarlet Fever 21
Diphtheria and Membranous Croup 77
Enteric Fever 12
Measles 50
Whooping Cough 50
Diarrhoea 133
343
These 343 deaths correspond to a death-rate of 3.1
per 1,000.
During the past 10 years the number of deaths and the
death-rate from these diseases have been as under:—
Deaths.
Death Rate.
1886
253
37
1887
269
3.6
1888
252
3.2
1889
243
2.9
1890
379
4.3
1891
211
2.3
1892
448
3.5
1893
344
3.3
1894
426
3.9
1895
345
3.1
the average for the 10 years being 3.4.
The Zymotic death-rate for the whole of London was
2'6, and the average rate for the last 10 years 27.
In the various sanitary areas the rates ranged from 1.0 in
Hampstead, 1.1 in Stoke Newington, 1.3 in St. James,
Westminster and in Wandsworth, to 3.8 in Shoreditch, 3.9
in Clerkenwell. 8 in Mile End, 4.0 in Poplar, 4.6 in
Limehouse, and 5.5 in St. Luke's and St. George's-in-the-East.