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MEDICAL OFFICER'S
ANNUAL REPORT
BY
J. S. BRI.STOWE, M.D., LOND.,
Fellow of the Royfil College of Physician?, Physician to St. Thoipas's Hospital
Gentlemen,
According to the Registrar-General's returns, the
mortality of London for the year 1869 was unusually heavy.
The deaths were 77,933; which number, estimating the
population at 3,170,754, yields a mortality of 2.466 per cent.
The mortuary rates for London for the years 18(35, 1866,
1867, and 1868, were respectively 2 316, 2.411, 2.204, and
2.291. The chief causes of this increase appear to have been
Scarlet Fever, Hooping Cough, and Diarrhœa; of which
the first caused 5,803 deaths, the second 3,755, and the last
3,400. Collectively they account for 12,958 deaths.
The mortality of London is made up of the mortalities of
the five groups of districts into which it is divided; and the
mortuary rates of these differed alike from that of London