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throughout the Metropolis was the most fatal of these
diseases.
SICKNESS AND MORTALITY AMONGST THE PAROCHIAL POOR.
Table V., in the Appendix, contains the amount, nature,
and fatality of the sickness which occurred amongst the
parochial poor during the past year. The total number of
cases of sickness under treatment corresponds, within two,
with the average of the past nine years, whilst the mortality
therefrom (2.8 per cent.) was less than the average (3 per
cent). Epidemic diseases were much fewer than usual,
having numbered 1.95 only, the average number being 346.
These diseases constitute on an average 26 per cent. of all
sickness amongst the poor; last year they formed 14 per
cent. only.
GENERAL SICKNESS—ITS AMOUNT AND INTENSITY.
There is no record of the total amount of sickness which
has prevailed generally throughout the parish. It can
therefore be only approximately estimated from that portion
which is accurately known and recorded in the Table of
Sickness and Mortality amongst the parochial poor above
referred to. By assuming the ratio which the deaths bear
to the cases of sickness amongst the poor, as the ratio borne
by deaths to cases of sickness throughout the entire parish,
it is estimated that the total cases of sickness which came
under treatment amounted to 77 per cent. of the population,
and that one death resulted from every 34 attacks of sickness.
On an average of the past eight years, each death
represented 32 attacks. The intensity of disease was therefore
somewhat less than the average during the past year.
SANITARY PROCEEDINGS.
A summary of the principal sanitary proceedings which
have been carried out during the year is, as usual, contained
in Table VI. in the Appendix. With but two exceptions,