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Fever-loss of Shoreditch. In the first quarter of the
present year, the Fever-loss was 26, after deducting 13
cases belonging to St. Luke's.
The total deaths in St. Luke's Workhouse, 32, maybe
returned in the aggregate mortality of Shoreditch,
to compensate for the twentieth part which Shoreditch
may be presumed to own of the deaths in the General
Hospitals and Prisons of London.
One case only of Small-pox has been sent to the
Small-Pox Hospital during the quarter.
The only Epidemic from which the increase is
remarkable is Diarrhœa. This disease is known to be
intimately dependent upon temperature. On comparing
the prevailing temperature of the two periods under
comparison, it is accordingly seen that the average temperature
week by week, of the 13 weeks of 1857, has
been almost uniformly higher than that of the 13 weeks
of 1856. The average for the whole period gives an
excess of 2°. Throughout all London a similar early
rise in the mortality from Diarrhoea is observed. The
numbers are 243 for 1857, to 177 for 1856.
In connexion with this early seasonal appearance of
Diarrhoea there is, however, a consideration especially
worthy of attention, because it is deducted from long
and accurate observations by men of the greatest