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SECOND QUARTERLY REPORT
of the
MEDICAL OFFICER OF HEALTH.
to the
Vestry of Saint Leonard, Shoreditch.
GENTLEMEN,
I have the honor to submit my Second Quarterly Report on the Health and
Sanitary condition of your parish. It refers to the thirteen weeks ending on the
27th of September. In my Preliminary and first Quarterly Reports I entered in some
detail into the facts of most interest concerning the Population, Area, Soil, Water,
and Air of the District. The details there recorded will serve, and have already
served, as indications for immediate material improvements, and will be further
useful as terms of future comparison. The present Report will consist mainly in a
Summary of the Weekly Statements laid before your Sanitary Committee.
TABLE I.
Has been constructed in order to show the weekly Mortality from all causes, and that
from the six zymotic diseases in Shoreditch, compared with the mortality of all London,
The weekly Meteorological Phenomena are recorded side by side, in order that the
relations between these phenomena and the mortality may be the more readily traced.
This table is similar to one in the first Quarterly Report. I have preferred comprising
the proportional loss borne by Shoreditch in vulgar fractions, because the population
of Shoreditch being one-twentieth that of the entire metropolis, this mode affords the
most convenient and readily intelligible standard of comparison.