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The annual rate of mortality was 1 in 47. The
same rate prevailed throughout the metropolis. This
coincidence confirms the accuracy of the estimate I have
made of the actual population of Shoreditch. It may
also be taken as evidence of the satisfactory comparative
salubrity which the district, in spite of many draw-backs,
has attained.
The Tables appended contain a detailed analysis
and classification of the causes of death and sickness.
1 death only from Small-Pox is recorded. Only 2 cases,
one of which, however, proved fatal, have been sent to
the Small-Pox Hospital. Measles and Scarlatina have
been somewhat more fatal than last year. HoopingCough
has been less so. Fever has fallen from 63 in
1856, and 33 in 1857, to 28. Diarrhoea, which last
year had killed 20 persons, has this year destroyed 21.
In comparing the deaths from Fever and Diarrhoea in
the second quarters of 1857 and 1858, regard must be
had to the important fact, that the statistical quarter of
1857 ended on the 27th June, and that of 1858 on the
3rd July. The inclusion of six days of advanced temperature
might lead us to anticipate a considerably
greater number of cases of Diarrhoea.
The returns of 42 Coroner's Inquests are included
in the total deaths. 5 of these ought to have been
registered in the previous quarter. In 24 instances the
cause of death was not ascertained. In 8 cases, some