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This cause of mortality is therefore greatly under the control
of the Vestry and deserves their serious attention.
MEASLES.
Measles caused 58 deaths in St. Pancras during 1880,
being about half the number in 1879, and in the proportion
of 11.5 in every 1000 deaths from all causes.
This is but half the average of the preceding ten years,
and is about 6 per 1000 less than in the whole of London.
DIARRHŒA.
During 1880, 204 persons died of Diarrhœa, of whom 159
were under one year; the deaths from this disease were in
the proportion of 46.1 of every 1000 deaths from all causes,
and were 6 in every 1000 deaths above the average of the
last ten years. The proportion of deaths from Diarrhæa to
total deaths is the same in the whole of London as in St.
Pancras; our parish has not therefore suffered more heavily
from this disease than the metropolis as a whole.
TRADE AND HOUSE REFUSE.
The disposal of house and trade refuse in London has
recently excited the serious attention of many engaged in
the performance of sanitary duties.
In our own parish the difficulties with regard to the
collection and disposal of house refuse have been prominently
before the Vestry, and no better evidence can be found of the
Vestry's disapproval of existing arrangements than the fact
that they thought it well to send into the north of England
a deputation to consider the various methods which obtained
in that part of the country.
The habit in London of storing the refuse of the house in
close proximity to the habitation, where it only requires the
opportunity so readily afforded by the contract system to
become not only offensive to the nose and eye, but absolutely
injurious to health, has been sufficiently condemned by the
Vestry. At the present time, however, no steps have been
taken to remedy what all are agreed ought no longer to be
tolerated.