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amongst the out·door Union Poor. Amongst this latter
class exclusively the proportion of deaths to cases treated
during the year is a little over 6 per cent.
As in the report of 1874, so in the present one, no
deaths whatever are recorded in the Union Medical Officers,
Relief Book as having been due to any of the 7 principal
diseases of the Zymotic class, and of Small Pox, no cases
appear to have even come under treatment.
Inquests, &c.—Four Inquests were held during the
year, the enquiries resulting in verdicts to the following
effect:—
Accidentally Drowned 1
Found dead in the river 1
Found dead on Putney Heath (no proof of
cause of death) 1
Suicide by Drowning, body much 1
decomposed ·
Total · 4
There were two deaths placed on the register that
were uncertified by any Medical Practitioner, both occurring
in Roehampton, the information concerning which,it is to be
presumed must have been received from the parents of
the two children, for both of them were of tender years.
Whether these children died of the diseases named, viz.,
"Chronic Inflammation of Lungs "and" Acute Laryngitis,"
it is impossible to say. There are, it appears, as many as
2194 local Registrars in England, and it is only to imagine
that every one of these registers two deaths only in this
unsatisfactory manner, and it will at once appear that the
vital statistics of this country must be rendered in a manner
the reverse of scientific, and calculated to cause the Registrar·
General's published statistics to be of less value than they
ought to be.
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