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disease, the whole of the children born, with the exception of
two or three were vaccinated. 340 children were vaccinated
in Penge.
Measles.—25 deaths have occurred from measles, the
annual average of 10 years bcin^ 14.
The largest mortality from this cause was in the year
1868, when 34 deaths occurred, and in 1871, when 26 deaths
were registered.
Scarlei Fever.—Scarlet fever was more or less prevalent
during the year, notwithstanding which the deaths
caused by this disease only amounted to (3, a number less
than that of last year, when 10 only were registered, and
considerably below the average of 10 years, viz., 33.1.
Diptheria.—Diptheria occasioned 4 deaths, the average
of 10 years being, 9.2 per annum.
Whooping Cough.—25 deaths took place from whooping
cough, the average rate of 10 years being 19.6.
Fever.—The annual average number of deaths for 10
years from the different forms of fever is 18.7. 15 have been
registered from this cause in 1874, viz.:—
1 from typhus, the highly contagious fever of starvation
and overcrowding.
11 from typhoid or gastric fever, the fever produced by
the inhalation of poisonous gases, or by the ingestion
of poisonous germs conveyed in water, milk, &c.
1 from simple continued fever.
1 from remittent fever, and
1 from intermittent fever, or ague, a disease almost
unknown in these elevated districts.
Diarrhœa.—The annual average rate of mortality in
the previous 10 years was 30.7. During the year 1874, 39
deaths were registered, the largest mortality from it in this
district .since 1870, when 48 deaths were registered from the
same cause.
Seven Principal Zymotic Diseases.—In London
during the year 1874, 11,220 deaths, and in England and
Wales 85,094 were registered from these diseases.