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It will be noticed that the mortality in Bloomsbury has been rather in
excess of last year; and indeed it has been in excess of the average of the
last ten years in the proportion of 21 to 20.04. We shall discover directly
by another Table what the cause of that excess was. St. Giles South on the
contrary evinces a decreasing mortality. It is not only less than last year,
but, in a decided degree, less than the average of the preceding ten years;
the death-rate last year having been 31.1 and the average of the last ten
years 32.6. It is too soon to hazard any conjectures upon this point; but
we may remark with reference to it, that zymotic diseases, which are the peculiar
scourges of St. Giles South, were, last year, less prevalent than usual; and
we may hope also that sanitary regulations are at length doing some good in
that sub-district.
The foregoing observations apply equally to St. Giles North, a considerable
portion of the population of which is of the same class as that which
inhabits St. Giles South. The death-rate for this sub-district was last year
25.3 and the average rate of 10 years 27.2.

21 Deaths from Fever occurred in the London Fever Hospital in addition to the above.
This Table shows a marked preponderance of mortality from whooping
cough in the JBloomsbury District. It had also more than its share of deaths
from measles and scarlet fever, as compared with its customary relative mortality.
The following Table gives the quarterly death-rate from scarlet
fever, this being the disease which was most especially fatal in our District
during the year.