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Population, Births, and number of new cases of Infectious
Disease which have come to my knowledge during the year
1893; and also the number of cases removed from their
homes for treatment in isolation hospitals.
No. II. shows the deaths which have been registered in
the Parish, including also the deaths of parishioners in
hospitals and other institutions outside the sanitary district
classified according to diseases, ages, and localities.
The total number of certificates received during 1893 was
809, and the amount paid to medical practitioners for
furnishing the Certificates was £95 2s. This sum is recouped
to the Vestry by the Asylums Board out of the Metropolitan
Common Poor Fund. The total number of cases removed
to Fever Hospitals for treatment was 293.
Influenza.—This disease, once more, was the cause of
considerable loss of life during the year, 50 deaths being
attributed to it chiefly in the spring months and late autumn.
In London, deaths were recorded from influenza during every
week in the year, and this disease appears to have taken a
permanent place in our bills of mortality.
Local Diseases.—Diseases of the respiratory organs caused
165 deaths, of which 48 were due to pneumonia and 84 to
bronchitis. These deaths were again in excess, in relation
to which the Registrar-General remarks that a large number
of deaths, certified under the heads of pneumonia and
bronchitis, were really due to influenza. Diseases of the
nervous system caused 88 deaths, including 43 from
apoplexy, 18 from convulsions, 3 from epilepsy, and 9
from inflammation of the brain. Heart diseases proved fatal
to 80, and diseases of the digestive organs to 59, which latter