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Parish of Saint George the Martyr, Soutliwark.
Tt is a satisfactory sign of the improved sanitary condition of the metropolis, to find
that the deaths referred to fever have steadily declined from 3,073 in 1864, to 1,691 in
1871. (Dr. Farr).

The sixth table shows at a glance the number of the deaths that has happened from
the chief diseases of the zymotic class in each of the last ten years.
Consumption has caused 131 deaths, two more than in the preceding year. This
disease as regards mortality stands second on the list. Tabes, the consumption of children,
has killed 62; from this disease there died 24 more than in 1873—4.
The deaths recorded from brain and nerves were 190; these were 8 in excess of the
year 1873—4. Convulsions have proved the most fatal of this class, to them were referred
94 deaths, of which 71 were under one year of age.
Lung diseases (including consumption) gave the largest mortality of all classes ; they
caused 295 deaths. Bronchitis heads the death column. One hundred and thirty-one were
under five years of age, whilst 8 were 80 years and upwards.
The deaths trom the digestive organs offer little variation from year to year. They
have been 4 in excess of the previous year.
Out of the 1287 deaths, there were registered 37 from violence and privation. From
premature birth and debility there sank 34. 17 infants were suffocated, their ages ranging
from 18 days to 5 months. Seven died from fractures and contusions; six males aged
respectively, 2, 35, 44, 49, and 64 years, and one female aged 5 years. Two infants were
found dead in the streets. The skull of one was fractured. A child aged 5 months was
starved to death. A verdict of wilful murder was returned in the two last cases. A male
aged 2 years was choked whilst eating bread and milk. A female aged 19 years was
poisoned. A male aged 4 years died from the effects of a scald, by overturning a saucepan
of boiling water over himself. A male aged 50 years hung himself.