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REPORT
To the Bond of Works for the Hackney District.
Gentlemkn,
The sanitary state of your District during the second quarter
of this year has been good, for although the deaths, even after allowing
for increase of population, have been somewhat in excess as compared
with those which were registered during the corresponding quarter
cf last year, yet the new cases of sickness attended by the Parochial
Medical Officers and at the German Hospital, which afford very valuable
evidence of the sanitary condition of the district, have been very much
below the average number. There have been registered five cases of
Diptheria. and an excess of deaths in new.born children from premature
birth, debility, and atrophy. There has also been an unusual mortality
of children, of all ages, from measles, and of those 1 year old from
hcoping.cough, and a slight increase from diarhœa, but considering the
extraordinarily hot weather, which so increased the mortality of the
whole of London, the mortality from diarrhoea, was less than might
have been expected.