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27th June, 1898.
During the week that ended on the 18th day of June 60
births and 21 deaths were registered in the parish, indicating
an annual birth rate of 36.4, and an annual rate of
mortality of 12.7 per thousand of the estimated population.
The like death rate in London was 13.8. The number
of deaths of children under one year of age was 6,
of persons aged 60 years and upwards 5 and of parishioners
dying in outlying public institutions 9. The inclusion of
the latter raises the death rate to 18.2.
Zymotic dseases caused 4 deaths, viz.: measles 2, diphtheria
1, and whooping cough 1.
From diseases of the respiratory organs there were 8
deaths, viz.: 7 from bronchitis and 1 from pneumonia.
There was 1 death from phthisis, 1 from heart disease,
1 from cancer, and 1 from influenza and senile gangrene.
Two deaths were uncertified, both being due to premature
birth.
Seventeen cases of infectious disease were notified, viz.:
of scarlet fever 5, diphtheria 10, typhoid fever 1, and
puerperal fever 1.
In the week that ended on June 25th 47 births and 13
deaths were registered in the parish, corresponding to an
annual birth rate of 28.7, and an annual death rate of 7.9
per thousand inhabitants,
There was only one death from zymotic disease, which
was from whooping cough. Bronchitis caused 1 death,
phthisis 2, and heart disease 2.