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Deaths in Certain Classes of Diseases.
Class 1.—Specific Febrile or Zymotic Diseases.
This class of diseases, called "Zymotic," comprises, in
the Registrar-General's arrangement of the causes of
death, six orders. The first and second orders ("miasmatic"
and "diarrhœal") include the diseases which
the Registrar-General describes as the seven principal
diseases of the zymotic class; the term "fever" includes
"typhus," "enteric or typhoid" and "simple continued
forms of fever."
The zymotic death-rate is made up from these seven
diseases, as they are considered to be more or less of a
preventable character.
In St. Giles District there were 5.5 deaths, equal to a
zymotic death-rate of per 1,000, against 1.8 per 1,000
for the preceding three years.
In all London, 11,228 deaths were referred to these
diseases, which were equal to an annual rate of 2.48 per
1,000. It is stated that the mortality in London during
1899 from zymotic diseases was, in the aggregate, more
than 9 per cent. below the average.
In England and Wales 69,820 deaths were attributed
to them, corresponding to a rate of 2.21 per 1,000 living.