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compared with the deaths from all causes, as they were 545
against 820 last year, and 148 against 222 per 1000 deaths
from all causes. They amounted to 2.59 against 234 per 1000
population in all London, and 3.99 last year in this District.
The mortality from pulmonary diseases other than consumption
was greater than usual, as there were 756 deaths registered
under this heading against 603 in 1884, and the mortality per
1000 population was 3.59 against 2.93 last year. Tubercular
diseases caused rather less than the ordinary mortality, viz. 504
deaths, or 137 per 1000 deaths from all causes, and 2.39 per
1000 population against 2.05, 2.63 and 2.59 per 1000 during
the three preceding years. Wasting and convulsive diseases
in children under 1 year old, caused 256 and 171 deaths
respectively and 70 and 47 deaths per 1000 deaths from all causes.
This number, as regards the first named group of diseases was
above the average, having been l.23 per 1000 population
against 1.06, 1.19 and 0.98 in the three preceding years; and
also as regards the second group, viz. 0.81 per 1000 population
against 0.71, 0.78 and 0.65 in 1884, 1883 and 1882. As
"wasting diseases" occur chiefly amongst children of the poor
and in houses that receive especial sanitary supervision the high
death rate from these causes is somewhat unsatisfactory, but is
only what might have been expected, considering the increased
number of poor and the density of population. The diseases included
under this head are: Marasmas, atrophy, debility, want
of breast milk, and premature birth.
As I am often asked the length of time during which
a person who is attacked with an infectious disease should