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that the mentality of diseases is rendered far heavier
among them than amongst the so-called "better"
classes, in consequence of the numerous hygienic disadvantages
under which they dwell—disadvantages of
which some only are remediable by the action by the
Vestry.
Fifty deaths were caused by accidental or other violence,
or by poison; and 14 occurred in child-birth.
Acute inflammatory affections of the lungs killed 338
persons, and phthisis, and other forms of tubercular
disease, 323. Diarrhœa was unusually fatal, and (inclusive
of 16 deaths which were called choleraic,
though doubtless not due to epidemic cholera,) accounted
for no less than 146 deaths, exactly twice as
many as died from these diseases in the year 1867, and
26 more than died from diarrhoea and epidemic cholera
in 1866. All of these deaths but 10 occurred in the
months of July, August, and September, and were no
doubt mainly due to the remarkably high temperature
which then prevailed. As to other zymotic diseases, the
mortality of Diphtheria increased from 8 in 1867 to 17
in 1868, that of Small-pox from 9 to 13, that of Measles
from 20 to 67, that of Fever from 41 to 45, while that
of Scarlet Fever sank from 75 to 71, and that of Hooping-cough
from 64 to 58.
If allowance be made for the faot that the last