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diseases, including phthisis, resulted in death amongst this class of persons
in the greatest number of instances; for of 15 deaths, from all
causes, (vide Table IV, Appendix,) it will be seen that 11 occurred
from pulmonary affections alone.
BATTETRSEA.—From this sub district a by no means unfavourable
quarterly return has been received. As respects the poor of this
parish, a very satisfactory state of things is indicated by the return of
Dr. Connor, (vide Table IV, Appendix) by which it appears that, of
252 cases of sickness amongst the out-door recipients of Union relief,
5 deaths only have been registered during the past quarter, and that of
these 5 deaths not one has been recorded as the result of epidemic
disease. In the preceding quarter, the number of deaths amongst the
same class was 22 out of 270 cases that came under treatment. The
total number of deaths from all causes, and amongst all classes, in this
sub-district, during the quarter just past, is 84, of which 26 are
registered as the result of diseases of the organs of respiration, including
phthisis. In the three preceding quarters, or those that ended in
March, June, and September, the deaths from all causes were respectively
95, 79, and 85. The 84 deaths therefore, of the December quarter,
occurring as they did in an increased population, may be considered to
indicate an improving state of the public health of this locality, and
very fairly leads to the inference that the sanitary measures already
executed in the parish have not been altogether unproductive of
beneficial results. With reference to the fatality attending epidemic
maladies in this sub-district, and the localities of their occurrence, Dr.
Connor writes, "There is nothing remarkable in the sanitary condition
of the houses in which deaths have taken place from zymotic diseases
during the quarter, except in Ford's Folly, which is in a very unwholesome
and unhealthy state."
WANDSWORTH.—Mr. Nicholas, in a Quarterly Appendix to his
returns, makes the following remarks:—"A comparison of the mortality
of the December quarters of previous years, together with a similar
comparion of the sickness which has prevailed amongst the poor, with its
attendant mortality, demonstrates by a very great diminution of disease
both in amount and intensity, a very notable improvement in the
health of this parish. During the 7 years, 1850-6, The average num-