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In the corresponding Quarter of the previous year, the deaths from
epidemic diseases were 113, viz., 1 from small-pox, 16 from measles, 33 from
scarlet-fever, 30 from hooping-cough, 7 from diarrhoea, 23 from fever, and 3
from cholera and choleraic-diarrhoea.
Diseases of the tubercular class have been fatal to 100 persons, viz.,
1 from scrofula, 26 from tabes mesenterica, 62 from consumption, and 11
from hydrocephalus. The proportion of deaths from this class of disease
to the total deaths is 17.0 per cent. The proportion of deaths from epidemic
diseases to the total deaths is 11.2 per cent. In the corresponding quarter
of the previous year the proportion was 18.6 per cent.
The deaths caused by diseases of the respiratory organs, exclusive of
consumption, have been 98; of these, 45 were caused by bronchitis, 31 by
pneumonia, 1 by laryngismus, 1 by laryngitis, 1 by spasm of the glottis,
and 19 by other affections of the lungs. Consumption was fatal to 62
persons. The proportion of deaths from this disease to the total deaths is
10.6 per cent., and nearly equals the proportion of that of the epidemic class
of diseases.
Diseases of the organs of circulation were fatal to 27 persons; of these,
23 died from disease of the heart, and 4 from aneurism.
The deaths from diseases of the urinary organs were 16; of these, 10
were caused by nephria or Bright's disease, 1 by nephritis, and 5 by other
diseases of the kidneys. Convulsions caused the deaths of 14 children.
There were 10 deaths from premature birth, 9 from teething, and 14
from atrophy and debility. The deaths by syphilis were 4; of these, 3 were
of children under one year of age. Three persons died in child-birth.
Intemperance was fatal to 2 persons, 2 died from privation, and 2 from
want of breast-milk.
The deaths of 16 persons are attributed to old age; of these, 11 were
above 80 years of age; one of these, a female, reached the advanced age of
97. Five persons died from premature decay under the age of 70 years.
There were 43 deaths from mechanical violence; of these, 9 were
caused by horses and vehicles in the streets.
Burns and scalds were fatal to 6 persons.
Five children were suffocated in bed.
The number of inquests held has been 88. In the corresponding
quarter of last year the number was 59.
Six persons committed suicide, and 5 persons were accidentally drowned.
The deaths of children under five years of age are 129. This is 34.7
per cent, of the total mortality. In the previous quarter of last year the rate
of mortality of children under five was 40.8. In the Artillery sub-district
the rate is 64.2 per cent.; in the Spitalfields, 43.3 per cent.; in the Mile End
New Town, 33.1 per cent.; in the Whitechapel North, 47.7 per cent.; in th