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The excess of births over deaths (corrected) was 2,998.
The number of new cases of sickness of all kinds, recorded in the books
of the poor-law surgeons, in those of the two Dispensaries and of the
Pentonville Convict Prison amount together to 38,397, or 1,682 in excess
of the number recorded in 1869. The epidemic maladies of the year were
Measles, Scarlet Fever, and as the year began to wane, Small Pox. In one
circumscribed district of the parish, a very curious outbreak of Typhoid
Fever occurred, due to the operation of a special cause.
Causes of Sickness and Death.
Table I. exhibits the several causes of the deaths registered in the
parish during the year, and Table II., the nature of the more important
eases of public sickness recorded in the books to which I have access.
Diseases of the Organs of Respiration occasioned 218 deaths nearly equally
distributed between the two sub-districts, which is equivalent to saying
that they produced a larger proportion of deaths in the west than in the
east. Three hundred and twenty-one were deaths of children under
5 years of age, and 233 were of persons over 60 years. The number of
cases recorded in the public practice was 8,141.
Diarrhœal affections, including dysentery and summer cholera occasioned
259 deaths, of which 218 were of children under 5 years of age. The total
number of cases of these affections recorded in the public practice was 2,019.
Small Pox. From the time when in 1868 a tedious epidemic of Small
Pox was suddenly brought to an end about the month of July or August,
until October, 1870, this disease was in abeyance. Throughout the whole