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The deaths under 1 year of age numbered 17, and above
60 years of age, 36.
Cold is more fatal to the aged than to the young, especially
sudden and sharp, although short, periods of cold.
Fifteen deaths occurred in the workhouse—10 males and
5 females. The ages at death averaged 75 years for the
women, and 67½ the men. The latter included 2 deaths
from phthisis, and 1 from acutebronchitis at the comparatively
early ages of 38 and 53. These reduce the mean age at death
among the males, which, exclusive of these cases, was 78
years. The causes of death were old age, or chronic
diseases of the lungs and he art, which are ordinarily
attendant on advanced periods if life.
February Ist, 1886.
During the fortnight that' ended on the 23rd day of
January, 149 births and 79 deaths were registered in the
parish. These numbers show an annual birth rate of 43.0,
and an annual rate of mortality of 22.8 per thousand of the
estimated population. The corresponding death rate in
London was 22.9.
Zymotic diseases caused 13 deaths, viz., measles 2, scarlet
fever 1, whooping cough 10.
From diseases
of the respiratory system there were 24
deaths, viz. : —from bronchitis 17, from pnuemonia 4, and
other diseases 3.
Diseases of the tubercular class caused 9 deaths, of which
7 were referred to phthisis.
There were 3 deaths from old age, 3 from heart disease,
and 3 from cancer.
Eighteen children died under one year of age, and twenty
persons at and above 60 years of age.
Four inquests were held ; all the deaths were referred to
natural causes.
The Dairies', Cowsheds', and Milkshops' Order of 1885,
[Reg. 28 to 32] contains important provisions respecting the
sale of milk by retail, which cannot be too generally known.
[Read 28 to 32.]