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Return of Sickness and. Mortality.
At the end of this Report the following tables will be found:
No. I., giving the population, births, and cases of infectious
disease which have come to my knowledge during the year 1895.
No. II., the deaths which have been registered in the Parish,
including also the deaths of parishioners in hospitals and other
institutions outside the sanitary district, classified according to
diseases, ages and localities. These tables are prepared in
accordance with the requirements of the Local Government
Board, in order to insure greater uniformity in the reports of
Medical Officers of Health than has hitherto existed.
Table No. III. is of a more comprehensive character, and
shows the deaths registered from all causes, inclusive of the
deaths of parishioners at hospitals and public institutions outside
the district, but exclusive of the deaths of non-parishioners at
public institutions within the Parish.
Table IV. is a return prepared by Mr. Neighbour, the
Vaccination Officer, setting forth the number of cases of
successful vaccination, so far as relates to children whose births
were registered during the year ending June 30th, 1895. The
figures show that those not yet found in consequence of removals,
etc., number 197 out of a total of 1961, being 10.0 per cent., a
deficiency greater than in former years, and may fairly be
ascribed to the following reasons—First, a growing opposition to
the operation of vaccination, encouraged by the delay in the
Report of the Royal Commission, and a vague belief that the
said Report will be condemnatory of the practice.
Sickness and Deaths due to the Principal Zymotic or
Communicable Diseases.
Small-Pox.—There were no deaths certified from this cause
during the year belonging to the Parish of St. Luke. The
Metropolis furnished 55 deaths, against 93 for 1894, and 206 for
the year 1893.
The total number of cases of sickness notified as Small-pox
during the year was three. The first was that of a man 75 years
of age, who, after being in the City Road Workhouse three
days developed the disease, he was described as a "travelling