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It is hardly necessary to add that the amelioration of such
conditions is the work of time. Death-rates due to such
circumstances cannot be reduced in twelve months, for their
reduction depends upon many agencies and upon an all-round high
standard of sanitation and public health. But to reduce the deathrate
to the average of that of London, is, I think, a reasonable and
obligatory task, though not an easy one, nor one which can be
accomplished in a short period of time.
ZYMOTIC DISEASES.
The principal Zymotic Diseases are seven in number, viz:
Smallpox, Measles, Scarlet Fever, Diphtheria, Whooping Cough,
Fevers (including typhus, typhoid or enteric, and simple or continued)
and Diarrhoea.
In Clerkenwell during 1899 there were 692 notifications received under the Notification Clauses of the
Public Health (London) Act 1891 (Metropolitan Asylums Board
Returns), as follows:—*

The deaths from Zymotic Diseases occurring in the Parish
numbered 180 and were caused as follows. tor comparison the
number of deaths during the last ten years are also given:-
*The difference between these Returns and those of the Vestry in Table at end of Report is due to
duplication.
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