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10 years immediately preceding; of these 780 deaths, 592 or 76
per cent. occurred in public institutions.
Belonging to our own district 13 deaths were certified, all of
which took place in the Metropolitan Asylums Board Hospitals.
This is a more favourable return than for the year 1896, when
the deaths numbered 21. The returns of sickness from the
same cause were also less, the numbers being 234 for 1897 and
259 for 1896.
Diphtheria caused the deaths of 21 parishioners against 25
for the year 1896. Although only a slight decrease, these figures
will bear favourable comparison with those relating to some of
the surrounding Sanitary Districts, and even to the Metropolis
as a whole. The rate for St. Luke being 0'51 per 1,000 persons
living, Clerkenwell yielding 0-73, Shoreditch 0*64, and Hackney
(>•62 per 1,000.
The total deaths in the Metropolis amounted to 2,261, being
equal to a rate of 0'51 per 1,000 against 2,683 or 0-60 per 1,000
for the previous year.
The number of cases of sickness from Diphtheria notified in
the Parish was 183, and from Membranous Croup 1.
Fever.—Under this heading 7 deaths were registered n the
Parish, all being ascribed to Enteric or Typhoid Fever. Three
of the deaths occurred in the Royal Hospital for Diseases of the
Chest, neither of the deceased persons belonged to the Parish.
The other four belonged to the City Road District, three of
whom died in their own homes, and one in the Metropolitan
Asylums Board Hospital.
There were 566 deaths classed as " Fever " within the Metropolitan
area during the year, being 43 less than the previous
year, and equal to a rate of 0.13 per 1.000, and slightly below
the average rate (0.15) in the previous 10 years.
The table of Infectious Sickness shows a considerable increase
under the head of Fever compared with the two previous years,
there being notified 43 cases of Enteric Fever and 2 of Puerperal
Fever. During the year 1896, 38 cases were certified, and for
1895, 32 cases.
Admissions and deaths at the Metropolitan Asylums Board
Hospitals, the Highgate Smallpox Hospital, and the London