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such statistics specially bear have been very fully discussed
in former reports, it is unnecessary to do more
than very briefly refer in this place to the leading results
of the comparison that has been made of the present table
with that of 1861. These are:—1. That less deaths by
17 occurred in the sub-district in 1862 than in the previous
year. 2. That the deaths resulting from the seven
principal zymotic diseases, viz., small pox, scarlatina,
measles, diphtheria, whooping cough, fever, and diarrhoea,
were less in the past than in the previous year in the
proportion of 13 to 21. 3. That the deaths of infants
and young persons between birth and 10 years of age
have diminished more than one half—67 having succumbed
in 1861, and only 31 in the year under review.
The deaths registered in the past year from infirmity
of age, were seven; from violence, four; and from premature
birth, low vitality, and malformation, four.
Deducting then the 15 deaths under the above three heads
as the result of causes considered to fall more strictly
under the denomination of accidental, the mortality from
disease alone in the year under consideration will be reduced
to 92, or 13 below that which was noted in 1861,
after a similar deduction had been made.
In the Royal Hospital for Incurables there were 12
deaths in the past year against seven in the previous one.
As the mortality in this public institution, receiving as it
does incurable cases from all parts of the kingdom, has
to be duly considered in estimating the rate of mortality
proper to the locality, these last named deaths may, as in
former years, be fairly placed as a set-off against those of
inhabitants taking place out of the parish, viz., in the
Union Infirmary, and in the London and other Hospitals.