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births the previous year by 201. Thus, estimating that the
population has increased 4,000 in the year, 1,264 was due to
excess of births, and 2,736 to immigration.
TABLE III.
The following table shows the quarterly numbers of births, and
each sex, registered in the three subdistricts during the vear
1878.
Sub-District of Fulham.
Sub-District of St. Paul
Sub-District of St. Peter.
Qurtr.
Males
Females,
Total.
Males
Females.
Total
Males
Females.
Total
Grand
Total.
1st
206
182
388
266
260
516
32
28
60
964
2nd
169
163
332
237
237
474
21
34
55
861
3rd
181
173
354
247
251
498
22
32
54
906
4th
175
187
362
224
240
464
25
28
53
879
Tot'l
731
705
1436
964
988
1952
100
122
222
3610
causes of death.
Of the so-called zymotic diseases 572 deaths were registered;
but of these 85 were of non-parishioners, and were brought
into the Fulham Small pox Hospital by the Metropolitan Asylum
Board, for the purpose of isolation. The corrected number therefore
of deaths of parishioners from zymotic diseases was 487. Of
these 16 were registered in St. Peters, 227 in St. Panls, and 244
in Fulham. Here I may mention that these numbers do not correctly
represent the proportion of those deaths in the three subdistricts,
owing to the fact that nearly all the cases of small pox
which occurred in Hammersmith were removed to Fulham for
the pu rpose of isolation. Of course the deaths that occurred were
registered in the Parish of Fulham. Of the 487 deaths from zymotic
diseases there were 54 of small pox, 27 of measles, 95 of
scarlet fever,???21 of diptheria, 109 of whooping cough, 3 registered
as typhus, 25 of enteric fever, 7 of simple continued fever,
140 of diarrhoea, and 6 of English cholera.
small pox epidemic.
The epidemic of small pox, which visited London in 1876,
has, with slight intermissions, continued over all the Metropolis
since that period. It is an interesting fact that independently
of the measures adopted by all the Vestries and District