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5
No.
Date, 1869.
Age.
Years.
Months.
DISEASES.
1 20th April 40 — Disease of heart
2 19th May — 15 Convulsions
3 1st July — 1 Bronchitis
4 3rd „ — 3 Enteric fever
5 6th „ 32 — Phthisis
6 9th „ — 2 Measles
7 3rd August — 4 Pertussis
8 26th „ — 1 day Immaturity at birth
9 26th September — 18 Diarrhœa
10 1st October 30 — Phthisis
11 18th December — 9 Bronchitis
12 1st January, 1870 — 9 Pertussis
13 7th February 30 — Phthisis
14 15th „ 25 — „
During the same period there were 19 births—12 males
and 7 females.
Scarlet Fever.
The Registrar-General, in his Weekly Report dated January
8th, 1870, has stated that "the disease was therefore
more fatal in London last year than in any previous year since
registration commenced,—the nearest approach to so high a
death-rate having been in 1863, when scarlet fever killed
171 persons to every 100,000 of the then population."
This statement induced me to analyse the deaths in the
Parish from this cause, and to publish the following Mortality
Tables. The first one records the deaths during the
four quarters of the past year, and the other includes those