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months of the year. The deaths numbered 100, making an annual
death-rate of 0.34 per 1,000, the average death-rate during the previousten
years being 0.57 per 1,000
Whooping Cough.—This disease frequently becomes
epidemic when Measles is prevalent, and also occurs as a sequelæ
of that affection, as is evidenced by the fact that of the 140
cases brought to the knowledge of the Medical Officer of Health 86
were reported during the last two months of the year. The number
of deaths during the year was 83, equivalent to an annual death-rateof
0.28 per 1,000, the average death-rate for the preceding ten years
being 1.41 per 1,000.
Diarrhœa.—Epidemic Diarrhoea, which is always responsible
for the greater part of the zymotic death-rate, and generally accounts
for a considerable share in the death-roll in young children, showed
an increase in the number of deaths over last year of 29. In West
Ham 201 deaths occurred, equal to an annual death-rate of 0.69 per
1,000, the average death-rate for the past ten years 1900-1909
being 1.41 per 1,000.
Bronchitis (acute and chronic) caused 386 deaths, or a deathrate
of 1.34 per 1,000, the average rate for the past ten years being
1.6 per 1,000, while the deaths from Pneumonia numbered 322, equal
to a death-rate of 1.12 per 1,000 as compared with an average rate of
1.41 for the preceding ten years.
Heart Diseases were responsible for 267 deaths, giving a
death-rate of 0.92 per 1,000, the ten years' average rate being 0.99
per 1,000.
Cancer, in which term is included all forms of malignant
growth, showed an increase in fatality, 232 deaths being recorded as