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Causes of Death.
Zymotic Diseases.-The seven principal Zymotic Diseases are
Small-pox, Measles, Scarlet Fever, Diphtheria, Whooping Cough,
Fever, and Diarrhoea.
The deaths arising from this class of malady were 24. This
number includes those non-parishioners who died in the Charing
Cross Hospital. After deducting those non-parishioners, and
adding those parishioners who died in Institutions outside the
Parish, the mortality due to St. Martin-in-the-Fields would be 03.
This mortality is in excess of the previous year, and is due to the
epidemic of Scarlet Fever and Measles. See Table 5.
Small-pox.—No death or illness from this disease came to my
knowledge.
Measles.—From this complaint 9 deaths were recorded, and
of a parishioner in the Metropolitan Asylums Hospital, making
total of 10. This disease assumed, in the Metropolis, an epidemic
form, which began about the first week in October, after which the
mortality rose very rapidly to a maximum in the middle of
December, when as many as 184 deaths were registered in a single
week.
Scarlet Fever.—One death occurred within the Parish, one of
a parishioner in King's College Hospital, and seven in the Metro-
politan Asylums Hospital, making in all a total of nine. The
number of cases of this complaint, which came under my notice, was
26, and 24 of these were sent to hospital. In 1887, the
politan Asylums Board admitted into their hospitals 5,900 Scarlet
ever cases, and in 1888, the number was 4,408. In the former
year, the maximum number under treatment at one and the same time .
was 2,611; in 1888, 954. The deaths in London from this disease
numbered 1,209, and were in the proportion of 0-28 to 1,000 inhabi¬-
tants, the average annual rate in the preceding decennium having
been 0.46.
Diphtheria.-Three deaths, from this disease, occurred in the
Parish, all in the Charing Cross Hospital of these were non-
residents, and two deaths of parishioners took place in King's
.College Hospital, so that the Parish would be credited with three
deaths from Diphtheria.