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Mortality. The amount of sickness, and its fatal results,
though less than those of the year preceding, were much
higher than the average, the number of fresh cases coming
under treatment having been 2,037 with 70 deaths, or
3.43 per cent; the average of the preceding ten years
having been 1,532, with 47 deaths, or about 3 per cent.
The amount of epidemic diseases was also greater, presenting
494 cases with 21 deaths, compared with the preceding
ten years' average of 336 cases, and 13 deaths, As
might be expected from an examination of the Table of
General Mortality, the most prevalent of the class of
diseases amongst the poor were Measles, Scarlatina, and
Small Pox. Of the last named disease 132 cases occurred
amongst them, 57 of which were removed to Hospital,
and of these 10 died Seventy-five remained under treatment
at their homes, and of these 5 died; so that the mortality
of the whole of the cases of Small Pox, which came
under treatment in hospitals or otherwise amongst the
parochial poor was 11.36 per cent. In the report recently
issued by the Committee of Management of the Stockwell
Small Pox Hospital, the rate of mortality appears to have
been 17.6 per cent., a result doubtless of the severer cases,
as a rule, being sent to hospital. Compared with the
general fatality of Small Pox, the rate of mortality in this
Parish from that disease was low; and looking to the very
low ratio borne by the deaths from Small Pox to the
deaths from all causes (which was 5 percent., or excluding
the deaths in hospitals, 3 per cent. only) it is obvious that
relatively to other Sub-districts, in which such ratio is
found to be 15 and 17 per cent. this Sub-district enjoyed
comparative immunity from the late epidemic.
Sanitary Proceedings, Removal of Nuisances, &c.—In
addition to the general sanitary proceedings which were
carried out during the past year, a summary of which is
contained in Table 6 in the Appendix, all the Cowhouses
and Slaughterhouses in the Sub-district were examined
and specially reported on, previous to a renewal of their