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these deaths occurred during the first half of the
year; during the last half there was a very rapid
diminution. There is a discrepancy between the
deaths from this cause in Table II. on the one hand,
and Tables I., and III. on the other. This is due
to the circumstance that 41 cases died at Deptford
Hospital, which number has been included in Table
III., but is omitted from the others. This omission is
explained by the difficulty there is in apportioning
the hospital cases between the several districts of
the Parish. Most of them, however, occurred iu
Peckham.
It is important to add that the mortuary statistics
for the year 1879 are made to include 53 weeks
instead of 52, and that on this account the figures are
a little more unfavourable in appearance than they
should be.
On the whole, whether regarded from the point
of view of the rates of death to population, or from
that of the prevalence of Zymotic Diseases, the year
must be regarded as, on the whole, a healthy one.
Its chief sanitary characteristic, however, is, as before
stated, the remarkably low death-rate for diarrhoea
during the summer months.