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This Table shows that the mortality from all causes in Shoreditch was 677;
that from six specified zymotic diseases, 198. Had Shoreditch lost its exact
proportional number relative to population, the gross mortality would have been 703
instead of 677. On the other hand its loss from zymotics would have been 175,
instead of 198.
This discrepancy (also marked in the preceding quarter), of a lesser gross
mortality and a zymotic mortality in excess, as compared with all London, points to
a problem in the vital Statistics of the District which it is very desirable to investigate.
In order to elucidate this subject, I have examined in some detail the mortality from
the different zymotics.

Diarrhœa.
Typhus.
All six Zymotics.
Sh. Lond. Prop, Sh. Lond. Prop. Sh. Lond. Prop.
92 1610 1/18 47 573 1/12 198 3499 1/18
This Table exhibits a striking difference in the relative mortality from
different zymotics. We lose less than our proportional number from Small Pox,
Measles, and Hooping Cough; the excess is marked in Diarrhoea, in Scarlatina, and
still more so in Typhus. The reason why our apparent loss from Small Pox is less, is
undoubtedly owing to the circumstance that many cases of this disease are sent to be
treated at Highgate, and that thus some die out of the Parish. It appears that
during the quarter, six cases were sent to the Small Pox Hospital, of which two are
reported as dead. If these two be added to the deaths included in the Shoreditch