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During the past year there were registered between birth
and 10 years of age the large number of 851 deaths, which
is 208 in excess of 1869. It is with still greater regret 1
have to state that 364 of these deaths were due to Zymotic
diseases, which is within 65 of the total deaths from this
class of maladies. The deaths of infants and young
children, that were registered as due to ordinary diseases
and to violence, numbered 487, which is 73 in excess of
1869. The deaths of persons over 60 and between that
age and the most extensive period of existence, were 206.
There were 55 persons registered as having succumbed to
old age or natural decay; and, among the persons over 80
at the time of death, it may be mentioned that 2 were
registered as having reached the age of 90, and 3 the still
more advanced ages of 92, 97, and 99.
Disease and Mortality among the out-door Union Poor.
—I have very accurately noted the cases of sickness and
the number of deaths as they appear in the Medical Relief
Hooks for the year 1870, but it strikes me the 76 deaths
that occurred in the 2,370 cases (vide Table V. Appendix)
that were treated during the same period, is a very small
proportion. It is doubtless difficult to keep a very accurate
record of all the cases that come tinder the cognisance of
the District Medical Officers, since very many persons in
the course of the year, after remaining a short time as
Union patients, obtain admission into the special and other
hospitals of the Metropolis, and dying there, their deaths
fail to be noticed by the local Registrar, or in the Medical
Relief Books. In this way the small proportion of deaths
to cases treated may possibly be accounted for.
Inquests, Violent and Sudden Deaths. — Forty-five
deaths were made the subjects of enquiry by the Coroner.
They may be thus classified:—