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Among the third class of patients,—those who were attended at their
own homes—we find a different ratio to have prevailed. The cases of
diarrhoea were only 234, fever 468, measles 127, scarlet fever 135, and
small pox 18.
The diseases which are most decidedly infectious were those which were
the most numerous among the poor people in there own homes, a result that
might be anticipated from what we know of the conditions of their life, the
overcrowding, the bad ventilation, and the neglect too common among the
poor, of disease in its early stages.
In order to present a more complete census of the mortality in the Workhouse
I have framed the two following Tables. The first gives the number
of persons who died in the Workhouse during the year and distributes them
among the three sub-districts where they had previously resided. It would
have been manifestly unjust to charge St. Giles South with all the deaths
because the Workhouse happened to be situated within it; the apportionment
of them among the sub-districts was therefore necessary. As in some instances
the residences were not ascertained, the deaths in these instances have been
distributed in the same ratio as in those where the residences were
ascertained.
The second Table gives the deaths from certain diseases (not zymotic) in
the Workhouse for the year with the proportion due to each sub-district
respectively.

* Five of these were infants under 1 year; one, a woman aged 53 years.
Some interesting facts arc brought out in the last Table which serve to
illustrate the vital and economic peculiarities of the inmates of Workhouses.
The largest number of deaths was from phthisis (61), the next in fatality was