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The deaths being (excluding 434 of non-residents) 1992, the rate of
mortality has been, during the year 26.0 per 1000, or 1 in 38 of all living.
The rate of mortality during the preceding year was 25.6 per 1000, or 1
in 39 of all living.
In making a comparison, however, of the rate of mortality of this
District with that of those in which there is no hospital, the total deaths
in the London Hospital must be eliminated, which this year, as before
stated, amount to 615. This gives a rate of mortality of 23.6 per 1000.
The annual rate of mortality since the year 1S66, which was the year when
cholera was epidemic, may be seen on referring to table No. 5 in the
appendix.
Deaths From Epidemic Diseases.
Of the total deaths recorded in this District during the year, there
were 318 from epidemic diseases, viz.: 1 from small-pox, to which must be
added the 6 which occurred in the Hospital, thus making a total of 7; 49
from measles, 89 from scarlet-fever and diphtheria, 73 from hooping-cough,
67 from diarrhoea, and 33 from fever, including 11 which occurred in the
Hospital.
In the first quarter of this year there were no deaths from small-pox;
in the second quarter there were 2 in the Hospital; in the third quarter 6,
5 of which occurred in the Hospital; and in the present quarter there was
1 and that occurred in the Hospital.
The deaths from fever, including those which occurred in the Fever
Hospital, have been 33. In the whole of London, the deaths from fever
have been 1084.
The death-rate from epidemic diseases, including those in Hospitals for
the year, in relation to the total mortality, is 13.1 per cent.
Small-Pox in London.
In the fifty-three weeks ending January 3rd, the deaths in London
from small-pox were 458. No less than 280, or 61 per cent. of these
458 deaths from small-pox were recorded in the Metropolitan Asylum
Hospitals. The small-pox deaths in London were equal to 126 per
million of the population.
Pauper Illness in the District.
The number of out-door sick paupers who have been attended by the
Medical Officers of the Union is 3833. During the previous year the number
was 3107. The extraordinary annual diminution in the number of the