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TO . THE
Destry of St. George, Hanoder Square.
My Lords and Gentlemen,
In compliance with the resolution passed by the Vestry,
December 1st, 1857, " That the Medical Officers of Health,
in addition to their Monthly Report, be desired to present
(quarterly) a summary," we have the honour to submit the
following account of the sickness and mortality of the parish,
and of the matters on which we have each presented Reports
to the Sanitary Committees respectively, during the last
quarter of 1857.
Such a compendium will necessarily refer to some circumstances
which occurred in the previous quarter, for the first
Report was dated so early as October 5th; but the annexed
Table of Mortality, applying to the whole parish, records
only those fatal cases that occurred within the thirteen
weeks ending December 26th, 1857.
The Table shews that, during thirteen weeks ending
December 26th, 1857, 442 deaths occurred in the parish,
including the deaths of 62 non-parishioners in St. George's
Hospital, and of 17 inmates of the workhouse at Little
Chelsea.