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If the Deaths be apportioned by the New Classification,
498 persons sank from Diseases of the Zymotic Class ; 449
from those of the Constitutional; 857 from those of the
"Local, comprising diseases of the brain, circulation, respiration,
digestion, urinary, reproductive, locomotive, and
integumentary systems;" 266 from those of the Developmental,
or "Diseases of Growth, Nutrition and Decay;"
and 114 from those of the Violent Class, or "Deaths from
evident external causes."
On the other hand, by the Old Classification (Table II.)
the formula supplied by the Registrar-General, the per
centage of the 1st Class ("Epidemic, Endemic, and Contagious")
was 22.5; of the 2nd Class(Dropsy, &c.) 2.7; of the
3rd (Tubercular) 18.6; of the 4th (Brain) 9.2 ; of the 5th
(Heart) 3.0; of the 6th (Respiratory) 22.2; of the 7th (Stomach)
5.0; of the 8th, 9th, 10th, 11th and 12th (Kidneys,
Childbirth, Joints, Skin, and Malformation) 20; of the 13th
and 14th (Premature Birth and Atrophy) 3.9; of the 15th
(Old Age) 5.2; of the 16th (Sudden Death) 2.1; and of the
17th (Violent Death) 2"7. By the Epidemic group 430
were destroyed, of whom 326 died under 5 years; 61 between
5 and 20; and 43 more at all other ages. Of all deaths it
formed 19.6 per cent., while in London it constituted 16.4.
In the East Districts—in which Bethnal Green is comprised
—its per centage was 17.6. Small Pox, the most preventable
and appalling of this " great class of maladies," was fatal,
mostly through negligence, to 36 individuals, 4 of whom
had reached their 21st, 22nd, 26th and 38th years. The
great culpability so incurred is thus noticed by Mr. Simon:
"The death of a child by Small Pox would in most instances
call for a verdict of 'homicide by omission' against the
parents who had neglected daily opportunities of giving it
immunity from that disease, by the simple process of