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The mean annual number of deaths at high ages
relative to population is greater in this sub-district thai
in the entire Metropolis, and tnusfar furnishes a favour
able indication of the healthiness of the suburb.
Sickness and
Mortality
of the
Parochial
Poor.
The nature and amount of disease with the
mortality that resulted amongst the Parochial
Poor during the year are shewn in table X.
page 17. The total number of fresh cases that
came under treatment was 722 and the total number of
deaths 27, or 3 per cent. The average number of cases
in the preceding ten years was 688, with 32 deaths, or
4.6 per cent. The number of cases of epidemic disease
was 58 with one death, the decennial average being 85
cases with 6 deaths.
The nature and number of the epidemic diseases that
prevailed were Measles 6, Scarlatina 3, Whooping Cough
1, Diarrhœa 36, Fever 6, and Erysipelas 6. They were
all unattended by fatality, except Diarrhoea from which
one death resulted.
Of the Non-Zymotic diseases those of the Respiratory
Organs were the most numerous forming over 24 per
cent, of all deaths; in the ) ear previous they formed over
30 per cent.