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The mortality from this class of diseases is seen to have
been greater than the average during the past year by
nearly a fourth part, and is sufficiently great to account for
the excess in the entire death rate. The excess was due to
a larger amount than usual of diarrhoea and fever, which
diseases prevailed more or less during the whole year. The
former disease was most prevalent and fatal as usual in the
autumn, and the latter in the summer and at the end of
the year. Small-pox prevailed during the summer and
autumn, though not to any great extent, having been
almost exclusively confined to the excavators employed on
the sewer works. The largest number of deaths from this
class of diseases—25 in number—occurred in the third
quarter of the year; in the fourth quarter, 17; in the
first, 8; and in the second, 4. The most unhealthy
months were July and December; in the former, 14 deaths
occurred, 9 of which resulted from diarrhœa; and in the
latter 10 deaths, 8 of which were from fever. The most
prominent fact revealed by this table is the unusual fatality
of diarrhoea compared with former years.
SICKNESS AND MORTALITY AMONGST THE POROCHIAL POOR.
The amount, nature, and fatality of the sickness which
prevailed amongst the parochial poor during the past year
is contained in Table V in the Appendix. The amount
of disease under treatment was considerably below the
average, while the mortality (3.30 per cent.) was somewhat
greater than the average (3 per cent.) of the past
nine years.
AMOUNT AND INTENSITY OF GENERAL SICKNESS.
The amount of sickness which has prevailed generally
throughout the parish is approximately estimated by
assuming the proportion which the deaths bear to the cases
of sickness amongst the poor, as the proportion borne by
deaths to cases of sickness throughout the whole parish. By
this calculation it is estimated that the total cases of sickness
which came under treatment amounted to 58 per cent. of
the population, and that one death resulted from every 30