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Deaths due to the chief disorders included in
this category, including all diarrhœal disorders, are
given, not only for the year 1882 in the general
table (IX), but for every year since the Vestry
came into existence in table X, and in quarterly
aggregates for the last six years in table XI.
From table X the variations of each included
disease, year by year, from the time when the Vestry
came into existence may be learnt; while table XI
shows how during the last six years, this prevalence
has had relation to seasons. It must be borne in
mind, however, in considering these tables, that the
actual numbers of deaths are given, and not the
numbers relative to population; and that the population
has increased more than three-fold between
1856 and 1882.
From these tables it will be seen, that
Hooping-cough, which caused 180 deaths, was much
more fatal than it was in 1881, and that it prevailed
especially in St. George's, and during the first
three months of the year; that measles, which was
fatal in 168 instances, was much more fatal than it
has ever been in the parish before, and that it was
most fatal in Peckham, and during the first and