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13
ZYMOTIC DISEASES.
SMALL POX.
There was no death registered in the Parish from Small Pox, nor
did anyone die belonging to the Parish in any of the Matropolitan
Asylums Board's Hospitals.
MEASLES.
This disease caused 205 deaths in the Parish. It appears to
have been epidemic for seven months of the year.
The deaths in these seven months were:—
March 16 deaths
April 15 „
May 22 ,,
June 23 „
July 18 deaths
November 27 „
December 46 ,,
WHOOPING COUGH.
The deaths occasioned by Whooping Cough numbered 235, which
was 35 in excess of the previous year (1890). The deaths in the
five vears immediatelv preceding were:—
1886 205 deaths
1887 238 „
1888 230 „
1889 112 deaths
1890 200 „
The months in which the disease was most fatal were:—
January 28 deaths
March 19 „
May 22 „
June 19 deaths
November 28 „
December 31 „
SCARLET FEVER.
There were 28 deaths from Scarlet Fever registered in the Parish,
and two deaths occurred in hospitals outside it to which the patients
had been conveyed for isolation and treatment.
In preceding years the deaths were:—
1887 50 deaths
1888 50 „
1889 32 deaths
1890 29 „