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residents, as far as it is possible to trace them, who may
have died elsewhere in similar institutions. The Cottage
Hospital is the only place of this class within our
boundaries, and applying this process I forwarded to the
county Medical Officer particulars of seven deaths taking
place there, to be by him remitted to the Health Officers of
their respective sanitary districts, and through the same
medium I received intimation of the number of deaths that
occurred outside and that were to be added to those I
already knew of. Made up in this way the total number
of deaths for Surbiton during 1894 is 116, the constituent
numbers being 105 registered within the district, 4 in the
Cottage Hospital, 3 in the Isolation Hospital, and 4 from
the County Lunatic Asylum at Brookwood. For 1893 they
were 122.
Death Rate.
The estimate of the increase of the population to the
middle of 1894 is 10,320, which may be taken as correct,
for it has been furnished by the General Register Office,
Somerset House, plus the county correction for institutions,
and on this basis the death rate is 11.24 per thousand per
annum. This compares with 11.87 of the year before.
The death rate of London last year was 17.4 which is
considerably lower than any year on record. For England
and Wales during the same time the rate was 16.6, also
the lowest on record.
Zymotic
Diseases
Zymotic death rate is a term commonly applied, not
to the mortality from all diseases classed as zymotic, but to
that from the seven principal zymotic diseases, viz:—
small-pox, measles, scarlet fever, diphtheria, whooping
cough, fever (simple continued, typhus and enteric) and
diarrhoea. To these seven principal diseases 10 deaths
are referable, being four from enteric fever, three from
diphtheria, one from whooping cough, and two from
diarrhoea. This gives a zymotic death rate of 0.97 per
thousand, that for England and Wales for the same period
being 1.76.