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of death, apart from the zymotic diseases, which call
for special comment. It may be observed, however,
as having an obvious connection with the comparatively
high temperature of the winter months, and the
comparatively low temperature of the summer months
—in other words, with the comparatively narrow
range of temperature throughout the year—that
acute inflammatory affections of the lungs, tubercular
phthisis, and diarrhoea, were all less fatal than usual.
As compared with the previous year, there was a
falling off of 31 under the first head, of 68 under the
second, and of 32 under the third.
The zymotic diseases collectively were perhaps
less fatal than usual. At any rate the mortality from
them was not excessive.
Hooping Cough caused 61 deaths, a number
less by 32 than that ascribed to this disease in the
previous year. It was distributed generally throughout
the Parish, and was probably equally prevalent at
all times of the year. The heaviest mortality,
however, occurred as usual in the winter and autumn
quarters. Hooping Cough was less fatal than usual
throughout Londcn, but destroyed 1,780 lives.