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Table No. III. is of a more comprehensive character, and
shows the deaths registered from all causes, inclusive of the
deaths of parishioners at hospitals and public institutions outside
the district, but exclusive of the deaths of non-parishioners at
public institutions within the Parish.
Table No. IV. is a return prepared by Mr. Neighbour, the
Vaccination Officer, setting forth the number of cases of
successful vaccination, so far as relates to children whose births
were registered during the year ending June 30th, 1896. The
figures show that those not yet found in consequence of removals,
etc., number 194 out of a total of 1,900, being 10.2 per cent., a
deficiency somewhat less than in former years.
Sickness and Deaths due to the Principal Zymotic or
Communicable Diseases.
Small-pox: I am again in a position to be able to report
that no deaths from this cause occurred to any parishioner of
St. Luke during the year. The Metropolis furnished only 9
deaths from the disease against 55 for the year 1895 and 89 for
1894.
Two cases of sickness were notified as Small-pox during the
year, and were removed to the Wharf of the Metropolitan
Asylums Board for trasmission to the Hospital Ships. In both
instances the patients were found to be suffering from Chickenpox,
and after vaccination were returned to their own homes.
Scarlet Fever was the registered cause of deaths in
London in 942 instances, being, with the exception of the year
1895 (when the number of deaths was 829), the smallest
number recorded from this disease for 5 years. Of the 942
deaths 644, or 68 per cent., occurred in public institutions.
Belonging to our own district 21 deaths were certified, 16 of which
took place in the Metropolitan Asylums Board Hospitals. These
figures are largely in excess of the previous two years, the deaths
in 1895 being five and 1894 nine. The returns of sickness from
the same cause shaw, as may be supposed, an increase upon the
previous 3 years, the number being 259 for 1896, 145 for 1895
and 124 for 1894.