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The deaths in the London Hospital have been 128; of these, 93 were
of non-residents, 11 of residents, and 24 of persons who died from the
result of accident and from sudden death. The deaths of persons who had
resided in this District previous to their admission in the London Hospital,
form but a very small proportion of the total deaths in this institution.
Excluding the deaths caused by accident, (the previous residences of such
persons not always being given in the weekly returns) the proportion of
deaths of residents is only 10.5 per cent. In the corresponding Quarter of
the previous year the deaths in this Institution were 151.
The deaths in the Workhouse have been 58. In the corresponding
Quarter of last year they were 74.
The deaths from epidemic diseases in the entire District have been
114, viz.: 6 from small pox (including 5 in the Small Pox Hospital), 12
from measles, 30 from scarlet-fever, 3 from diphtheria, 17 from hoopingcough,
46 from diarrhoea, and 5 from fever. Five deaths from fever of
paupers from this Union occurred in the Asylum Board Hospital; one of
which was that of a non-resident who was removed from the London
Hospital. The deaths from fever in this District have therefore been 9,
thus making the total deaths from epidemic diseases 123. The
deaths from diarrhoea have fallen from 71, the number in the corresponding
Quarter of last year, to 46. On the subject of mortality from
diarrhoea, the Registrar-General in his weekly report for August 30th,
remarks that "the deaths referred to diarrhoea, which had risen in the five
preceding weeks from 25 to 174, further increased last week to 209, and
exceeded the corrected average for the corresponding week of the last ten
years by 11; in the corresponding week of the last three years, the recorded
fatal cases of diarrhoea were 134, 154, and 148 respectively. No less than
165 of the 209 fatal cases last week were of infants under one year of age.
The annual death rate from diarrhoea was equal to 3.0 per 1000 in London
last week, whereas it did not average more than 1.9 in the aggregate of the
nineteen large provincial towns; it ranged from 2.3 in the central, to 4.2
in the east group of Metropolitan Districts." This is certainly a significant
fact, and it points to a difference in the sanitary condition of the
several Districts.
The residences of the paupers from this Union who have died in the
Fever Hospital during this Quarter, are as follows:—29, Commercial
Street; 9, Tuson's Court; 29, Grey Eagle Street; 21, Fort Street, and a
non-resident from the London Hospital. The five paupers who died in
the Small Pox Hospital were removed from the under-mentioned places,