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WORKHOUSE.
There have been 26 deaths in this Establishment. In the corresponding
month of 1856 there were 30. During the quarter just ended there have been
82 deaths; during the same quarter of 1856 there were 96.
Diarrhoea has been very prevalent amongst the inmates; there have been
69 cases of this disease; in the previous month there were 22. The diarrhoea
has been of a mild form, and has not been the cause of death in any case.
Other acute diseases have been rare, and the health of the inmates on the
whole has been good.
The weekly average number of inmates during the month has been 1394.
Temperature and Meteorology of the Month.—The average temperature
of the first week was being 3.9° above the average; of the second week
5.6°, which is 1.8° below the average; of the third 67.3°, which is 6.9° above;
and of the fourth 60'3°, which is 1° above the average. Of the twenty-eight
days, eighteen were warmer and ten colder than usual. The highest temperature
registered at Greenwich in the shade was 88.5° on the 27th of the month; the
lowest was 38.8° on the 14th of the month. The greatest range of temperature
in the 24 hours was on the 27th, being 35°, from 53.5° to 88.5°. During the
month two inches of rain have fallen at Greenwich; in May little more than
half an inch.
REVIEW OF THE SPRING QUARTER.
During the thirteen weeks ending June 27th, 1857, there were registered
in the Parish of St. Pancras 933 deaths; in the Winter quarter of this year
there were 1112. During the Spring quarter of 1856, 925 deaths were
registered, whilst the average for this quarter in ten preceding years is 939,
which becomes when raised for the increase of population, 1033. So that the
mortality of the late quarter is a little above the corresponding quarter of 1856,
but about ten per cent. below the average of ten years.
Of six epidemic diseases—from measles and hooping cough there have been
considerably more deaths than last year; from scarlatina and diarrhoea severally
one more death; from small pox one fewer, and from low fevers 17 fewer,
deaths.
The average temperature of the quarter has been rather above the average
of the corresponding quarter of late years.
By comparing the third quarterly table of this Report with the corresponding
table for the Winter quarter contained in my Monthly Report, No. 13, it will
be seen that there has been amongst the poor considerably less sickness during
the last quarter than during the one preceding it. Instead of 1954 new cases
coming under the care of the District Surgeons there were 1504; instead of 37
cases of low fever only 23; of scarlet fever, instead of 32 only 22; of small pox
10 instead of 18; of pulmonary affections 147 instead of 198. There has,
however, been an increase in the numbers of measles and hooping cough, and
still more of diarrhoea, as is usually the case with the advance of summer.
Sanitary Works.—112 notices have been served for the improvement
chiefly of house property; of these 57 have been complied with, 16 are now in
progress, and 39 are as yet disregarded. All the cowsheds have been thoroughly