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Deaths from diseases of the respiratory organs this quarter
are high; inflammatory diseases of the chest, bronchitis 95,
and pneumonia 44, =139, are exclusive of consumption 44. The
tubercular diseases, scrofula, marasmus, messenteric disease,
tubercular disease of the brain, and water on the brain, account
for 28 deaths— all in very young children.
The infant mortality (deaths under 5 years of age being 206)
is very high in the Parish ; but as a contrast more satisfactory
to reflect upon, a very large proportion of deaths are from extreme
old age ; in 15 deaths recorded from old age—natural decay,
11 of these were upwards of eighty; 20 deaths were from
mechanical violence and falls 7, drowning 1, burns and scalds 8,
suffocation 1, suicide and infanticide 3.
The Scarlet Fever Epidemic.
Scarlet fever has been severely fatal in the Parish : its presence
still lingers. It is to be regretted that we have rarely any official
means of knowing were the cases occur until the return of deaths
gives information, when it is too late to suggest means for arresting
the progress of contagion. Let it not be thought that families of
the lower class most suffer by this epidemic of scarlatina.
Lancaster Gate, Westbourne Terrace, Craven Road, Cleveland
Square, Gloucester Place, Southwick Crescent, Sussex Square,
in the rich district of St. Johns, have had their victims as
well as the overcrowded houses in Woodchester Street, Clarendon
Street, Cirencester Street, Dartington Terrace, Carlton and
other Mews, in some of which, two or even three children from
one house have been taken off. "Pallida mors aequo pulsat pede
pauperum tabernas regumque turres."