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Deaths from the two remaining classes of causes, Developmental diseases
and Violence, were less numerous in St. Giles's than would be estimated from
their fatality in London. They were also fewer in actual number in 1861
than in former years.
"Disease unspecified" lastly, was materially more often returned as a
cause of death in St Giles's than elsewhere. The deplorable facility with
which a certificate for burial can be obtained under the existing registration
laws has been before noticed in these reports. Special comment is made on
the subject in § VI of the present.
SECTION IV.—On the Localization of Disease and Death in St. Giles's
in 1861.

Three hundred and fifty six deaths in Bloomsbury represent a death
rate of its parisioners of 20.5 per thousand. The residents of St. Giles's
South (excluding the workhouse inmates) died at the rate of 29.1 per
thousand, while those of St. Giles's North died at the rate of 27.9 per
thousand. Comparing these figures with the results of former years (and
taking the rate per ten thousand to avoid fractions) we have the following:—

* Correction has been made for the extra length of the registration year 1857.
Bloomsbury and St. Giles's North, then, had an unusually high mortality;
St. Giles's North as high as in 1857-8, and higher than in 1859-60;
Bloomsbury considerably higher than in any of the four preceding years,
St. Giles's South, on the other hand experienced a diminished mortality, for