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134 deaths to every 1,000 registered births. In
London the rate was 148, and in the 19 largest
provincial towns it averaged 156 per 1,000 registered
births, ranging from 119 in Portsmouth to 202 in
Leicester, the variation being mainly determined by
the death-rate from diarrhoea.
Zymotic Diseases.
The sanitary condition of an ordinary population
is shown by its freedom from zymotic diseases, and
more especially from those known as the seven principal
preventible diseases, viz, small-pox, measles,
scarlet fever, diphtheria, whooping cough, fever (including
typhus, typhoid, and simple continued fever),
and diarrhoea. Notwithstanding that the death-rate
from diphtheria, measles, and small-pox exceeded
their respective averages, the death-rate in London
from these seven chief diseases was below the average
of previous years, being 3.64 per 1,000 of the
population, and 17.2 per cent. of the total deaths.
In Paddington the rate was only 1.9 per 1,000
inhabitants, and 12.3 per cent. of the total deaths.
Whilst these figures represent all the deaths from
those diseases which actually occurred in the Parish,
no cognizance is taken of the cases which were
removed to hospitals beyond its limits.
Small-pox.
" The most notable feature," says the