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ANNUAL REPORT
by
J. S. Bbistowe, M.D., Lond., Fellow of the Royal College of
Physicians, Physician to St. Thomas's Hospital.
Gentlemen,
The year 1805 was, upon the whole, a tolerably
healthy year. The deaths in London were 4263 less than
they were in 1864, while the births had increased by 4535;
and the mortuary rate was 2.462 per cent.: the rate for
1864 having been 2.653. Further, although in that year
(as compared with 1864) deaths from diarrhoea rose from
2861 to 3577, deaths from cholera from 154 to 193, deaths
from hooping cough from 2386 to 2921, and deaths from
small-pox from 537 to 646; deaths from measles sunk from
2750 to 1302, deaths from scarlet fever from 3242 to 2181,
deaths from diphtheria from 564 to 433, and deaths from
fever from 3689 to 3232.
It is satisfactory to find that the Southern districts were
still, as has been usually the case of late years, amongst
the most favoured of the Metropolitan districts. Their
mortality was less in proportion to population than that
of any of the other groups of Metropolitan districts with