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TO THE
Vestrg of St. George, Hanober Square.
My Lords and Gentlemen,
I. The number of deaths in the parish during the
present quarter has been 457. In the corresponding quarter
of 1858, it was 528; so that our present mortality is much
lower than it was last year, and very slightly in advance of
that of the preceding 10 years.
From the 457 deaths, we deduct 61 of strangers, who
have died in St. George's Hospital, and 8 of inmates of the
Little Chelsea Workhouse; so that the net mortality is 388;
whilst the births have been 607.
In analyzing the causes of death, we cannot fail to
remark the absence of measles, from which 32 children
died in the first quarter of last year, and not one this year;
and the reduction of the deaths from lung disease from 141
to 88, in consequence of the more equable temperature.
Diseases affecting the throat, which at present excite a
great deal of alarm in the public mind, destroyed 35 lives,
of which 18 were ascribed to diphtherite, 14 to scarlet fever,
and 3 to "putrid sore throat." The average number of
deaths from these maladies conjointly, during the preceding
five quarters, is 25.