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Returns of Sickness and Mortality.
On pages 22 to 33 the following tables will be found : No. I.
giving the population, births, and cases of infectious disease
which have come to my knowledge during the year 1897.
No. II., the deaths which have been registered in the Parish,
including also the deaths of parishioners in hospitals and other
institutions outside the sanitary district, classified according to
diseases, ages and localities. These tables are prepared in
accordance with the requirements of the Local Government
Board, in order to ensure greater uniformity in the reports of
Medical Officers of Health than has hitherto existed.
No. III. is of a more comprehensive character, and shows
the deaths registered from all causes, inclusive of the deaths
of parishioners at hospitals and public institutions outside
the district, but exclusive of the deaths of non-parishioners at
public institutions within the Parish.
No. IV. is a return prepared by Mr. Neighbour, the Vaccination
Officer, setting forth the number of cases of successful vaccination,
so far as relates to children whose births were registered
during the year ending June 30th, 1897. The figures show that
those not yet found in consequence of removals, etc., number 197
out of a total of 1,84U, being 10'7 per cent., a deficiency somewhat
greater than in former years.
Sickness and Deaths due to the Principal Zymotic or
Communicable Diseases.
Small-pox.—For the third successive year I am in a position
to report that no death from this cause has occurred to any
parishioner of St. Luke, nor has any case of sickness from the
disease been notified. The Metropolis furnished 16 deaths from
this cause against 9 for the year 1896, and 55 for 1895.
Scarlet Fever was the registered cause ot deaths in London
in 780 instances, being the smallest number recorded from this
disease since 1891, and being at the rate of 0-18 per 1,000 of the
population living as compared with 0*25, the average rate in the