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The subjoined table shows that the three sub-districts have held in 1866
the same position with regard to each other that is habitual to them, and it
will be observed that while the death-rate of Bloomsbury is that of the
healthiest London districts, that of South St. Giles' has, as usual, reached to
nearly the highest rate that is anywhere to be found in the Metropolis.

*Correction has been made for the extra length of the registration years 1857 & 1863.
Reference may here be made to the Table V. of the Appendix, which
shows for the three sub-districts the births of each quarter and of the whole
year. The total number of births will be found to be about the average, and
the highest rate to have been, as usual, in South St. Giles's. This consideration
suggests one among the many causes that habitually determines a
disproportionately high rate of mortality in that sub-district.
Particular diseases of the zymotic class have prevailed to different degrees
in the three sub-districts. Subjoined are the numbers of deaths from each
of eight principal causes of this kind. An excess of diphtheria in Bloomsbury,
of small-pox and fevers in South St. Giles's, and of measles and
diarrhoeal complaints in St. Giles' North will be observed. Measles and
whooping-cough were epidemic in the Workhouse, and several persons died
from typhus fever contracted there.

. Who also had pertussis.