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Market District was delivered after 7 o'clock in the evening
instead of in the morning.
28th February, 1898.
During the week that ended on the 19th day of February,
61 births and 22 deaths were registered in the parish.
These numbers indicate an annual birth rate of 37.0 and
an annual rate of mortality of 13.3 per thousand of the
estimated population. The corresponding death rate in
London was 21.5. The number of deaths of children under
one year of age was 9; of persons aged 60 years and upwards
6; and of parishioners in outlying public institutions
12. The inclusion of the latter raises the parish death rats
to 20.6. In the class of zymotic diseases there were two
deaths from measles. Diseases of the respiratory system
caused 6 deaths, viz., bronchitis 3 and pneumonia 3. From
tubercular diseases there were 3 deaths— 2 from phthisis
and 1 from tuberculosis.
Influenza, in conjunction with other diseases, caused 2
deaths, heart disease 3, cancer 1, and age 1.
Two inquests were held. A child, aged 4 months, was
accidentally suffocated by food getting into the air passages.
One death was uncertified, and attributed to convulsions.
Five notifications of infectious diseases were received.
They were: Of scarlet fever 3, diphtheria 1, and typhoid
fever 1.