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The number of deaths from all causes registered in the
sub-district, during the year ending 31st December, 1864,
appears by the above Table to have been 179, (99 males
and 80 females). This exceeds the number recorded in
the preceding year by 14, and is the highest mortality
reached since the Metropolis Local Management Act came
into operation.
At first view the excess noted may appear very large,
but looking at the increase of the population, it is in reality
small compared with that observable in many similarly
positioned localities. The natural increase, as shewn by
the excess of births over deaths (107), added to the increase
by immigration, which, as last year, may be assumed
to have been nearly double the natural increase, would, I
calculate, bring up the number of inhabitants to about
10,900, In order, however, to avoid the possibility of overrating
the increase, the latter source of such increase, may
be put at a somewhat lower figure, and the population of
the year 1864 taken, in round numbers, as being 10,800
only. Even at this low estimate, it would follow (the deaths
being 179), that the mortuary rate would be maintained
at under 17 in every 1000 living.
ZYMOTIC DISEASES.
The Table of Mortality gives, it will be seen, 27 as the
number of deaths resulting from zymotic diseases during
the year, which, as before observed, is 10 less than in 1863.
The highest numbers appear opposite the headings Diphtheria
and Diarrhoea, to each of which diseases 6 persons
succumbed; Typhus and Typhoid Fever proved fatal in 5
cases. There were also recorded 4 deaths, the result of
Whooping Cough, and 3 of Croup; whilst Measles, Erysipelas
and Quinsy, respectively, contributed one death to
the register of the year.
Death from Small Pox, I am pleased to say, finds no
record in the Table of the present report; but the subdistrict,
in common with almost every parish within the