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167 against 17 in 1861 fell victims to Measles, of whom
162 had not reached the age of five.
Scarlatina, the ruling epidemic, (with Diptheria) cut off
192, an amount more than double its onslaught in the year
before. In one house in Bethnal Green Road 5 children of
the ages of fifteen months, of two, five, eight, and eleven
years were swept away. These cases are recorded in the
Registrar's return as "aggravated by the fetid exhalations
of an adjoining Sausage Factory." "Occasionally Scarlatina
is more fatal even than Typhus, and approaches nearer to
the nature of plague than any other disease." Such pestilences
not only "spread by contagion, but from time to time
arise up here and there de novo, out of the malaria, or the
defective drainage, or the want of ventilation."
Whooping Cough, unlike its predecessors, fell from 151
in 1861 to 88 in 1862.
Diarrhoea too was less prevalent than usual, and declined
from 90 deaths to 71.
By Fever our loss was heavy and severe, for in the two
periods its deaths augmented from 65 to 156.
Severally, and in the order of rotation, Small Pox caused
1 in 158 deaths, Measles 1 in 15, Scarlatina and Diptheria 1 in
13, Whooping Congh 1 in 29, Diarrhoea 1 in 36, and Typhus
1 in 16. On the other hand, out of every 10,000 of the
population, Small Pox cut off 1.5 of the number, Measles
15.6, Scarlatina and Diptheria 18, Whooping Cough 8,
Diarrhoea 6.6, and Typhus 14.6. In London, however,
Small Pox numbered a death out of each 194, Measles out
of each 29, Scarlatina and Diptheria out of each 16, Whooping
Cough out of each 31, Diarrhoea out of each 38, and
Typhus out of each 18. So likewise to every myriad of
London, Small Pox was fatal to 1.2, Measles to 7.9, Scarlatina
and Diptheria to 14.6, Whooping Cough to 7.5,
Diarrhoea to 6.6, and Typhus to 12.7.