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showing the number of children born, the number of those
who are vaccinated, and the number of cases included under
"removal to places unknown or which cannot be reached,
and cases not having been found." It will be seen
that the number of children who have thus escaped vaccination
amount to 7.1 per cent. of the total births. During the
preceding twelve months they amounted to 6.2 per cent.
DIPHTHERIA.
Thirty-four deaths from Diphtheria occurred among St.
Pancras parishioners, of which 32 took place in the parish
and two in hospitals outside the parish, to which they had
been removed during their illness.
34 deaths is an increase by nine upon the number of
deaths which resulted from this disease in the previous year.
The 34 deaths are in the proportion of 6.8 to every 1000
deaths from all causes. In the whole of London the
deaths from Diphtheria represent the same proportion of
total deaths.
It is a matter of regret that a large number of the cases of
this disease which occur are not reported to the Sanitary
Department. As a rule, the first intimation received is that of
the death of the sufferer. Diphtheria is a highly infectious and
fatal affection, and it is very necessary that persons suffering
from even mild attacks of it should not be allowed to
associate with others.
WHOOPING COUGH.
This disease caused 293 deaths in 1880, being nearly double
the number in the previous year.
The 293 deaths are in the proportion of 58 in every 1000
deaths from all causes, while in the whole of London the
deaths from Whooping Cough make only 42 in every 1000
deaths from all causes.
Whooping Cough has therefore been especially fatal in St.
Pancras, and has killed in the proportion of 14 for every
1000 deaths from all causes above the average for the preceding
10 years. The deaths have been distributed fairly evenly
by over the whole parish, and have not been confined to any
special araa. Whooping Cough has been more fatal in the
Northern districts than in any other. Next to the North it
has prevailed in the Southern and Central districts—the East
and the West being most and equally exempt.