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The deaths from Small Pox were 12, Meales 26, Scarlet
Fever 20, Diptheria 5, Whooping Cough 54,Typhus Fever 5,
Typhoid Fever 14, Continued Fever 11, DiarrllA. 89, Cholera 4.
The deaths of children under one year of were 405, and
of persons sixty years and upwards 283.
The deaths in 1871 were 1443, shewing 54 less this year than
last, notwithstanding increase of population.
The number of deaths in Public Institutiors in 1872 were
88, and from violence of various kinds 59.
One hundred and sixteen Inquests were reld during the
year, and of these several were on persons drowned, many of
them whilst bathing in the river.
I have the honor to be,
Gentlemen,
Your faithful Seraint,
FREDK J. BURGE,
Mcdical officer of Health.
Hammersmith,
22nd Oct., 1873.