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Table VII. gives the number of deaths which have taken place
from epidemic diseases during the last 10 years.
TABLE VII.
Year.
Smallpox.
Measles.
Scarlatina.
Diptheria.
Whooping
Cough.
Cholera.
Diarrhœa.
Fever.
1859
2
9
32
7
19
—
13
13
1860
7
19
8
7
4
—
2
18
1861
2
—
5
12
14
—
13
14
1862
—
13
21
10
7
—
12
19
1863
3
29
19
6
14
—
17
11
1864
8
10
36
10
15
1
29
19
1865
5
9
13
7
14
—
32
16
1866
5
21
12
21
32
10
23
11
1867
14
3
9
8
16
—
25
26
1868
—
34
77
6
8
—
29
25
1869
1
14
40
7
27
—
15
28
A correct estimate of the death rate is of great importance in
a sanitary point of view; but this can only be ascertained from an
accurate knowledge of the population of a given district.
The census will next year determine this point; but in the
meantime I have from year to year endeavoured to give this approximately,
by ascertaining the number of inhabited houses from
the rate book at the middle of the year, and calculating the number
of inhabitants at the rate per house which existed at the census
of 1861, which is no doubt the most correct manner of getting at
the facts of the case.
I have given, however, as a comparative table, the population
calculated logarithmally, supposing that the same increase had
continued as was found to have taken place between the census of
1851 and the census of 1861.
One or other of these plans is the only method by which the
population of London or any other English city can be obtained
between the decenniads; and as all tables must be calculated upon
this basis, the comparative mortality of different districts is more
to be relied upon than would at first be supposed.
As a corrective statement, it should be mentioned that when
calculating the mortality of this district it must be taken into
account that in Penge there is a school—the North Surrey District
School—where a population of 1000 children reside, aged from 2
to 16, amongst whom the mortality does not average half per cent.