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REPORT
FOR. THE QUARTER ENDING
OCTOBER the 1st, 1864.
Gentlemen,
During the quarter which ended on Saturday, October 1st,
740 persons died in this district, of whom, 405 were males and 335 females.
In the corresponding quarter of the previous year, the deaths were 679.
The increase of the mortality, therefore, as compared with that of the
previous year, has been 61. The deaths in the London Hospital have been
129 against 103, so that, if we deduct the total number of deaths in the
London Hospital in each instance, the mortality of this quarter shows an
increase of 35 only, over that of the corresponding quarter of 1863. If,
however, we compare the mortality in this quarter with that in the corresponding
quarters of the preceding seven years, it will be found, that the
number of deaths has greatly increased. Thus, in 1858, the deaths were
547, in 1859—624, in 1860—515, in 1861—549, in 1862—613, in
1863—670, and in 1864—740. Of the deaths in the London Hospital,
there were 60 of non-residents, 9 of persons belonging to this District, and
60 were the result of accident. The births have been 648 : of these, 367
were of males, and 281 of females. The deaths have exceeded the births
by 92, but if we deduct the 129 deaths in the London Hospital, which it
is always necessary to do, in comparing the mortality in this district with
that in others, then it appears that the births have exceeded the deaths by
37. But as probably more than 37 persons belonging to this distriet
have died during the quarter in the several charitable institutions in
London (of which, however, we have no return), the deaths will be
found to have exceeded the births.
Epidemic diseases were fatal to 219 persons, and the whole class of
zymotic diseases was fatal to 235. This is 31.7 per cent, of the total
mortality. Noma, Abscess, and Mortification, which are nearly allied t
the zymotic class of diseases, were fatal to 17. In one of the casts.