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The number of these deaths presented, was in
1804 412 or 74 in 10,000 persons.
1865 350 „ 63 „
1866 294 „ 53 „
1867 840 ,,158 „
Placed in their respective parochial divisions, these 7 (usually 6) principal
contagious diseases will have this allotment:—
Small
Pox.
Meaales.
Scarlatina.
Fever.
Hooping
Cough.
Diarrhœa
Cholera.
Total.
Limehouse
20
17
23
18
13
112
179
382
Ratcliff
3
10
12
16
16
62
130
249
Shadwell
7
3
11
7
7
45
41
121
Wapping
—
4
3
1
6
12
62
88
30
34
49
42
42
231
412
810
1866-7
9
12
55
51
94
73
0
294
1865-6
The contrast of this order of deaths with that of the previous year is
more than striking. In this place it is hardly necessary to dwell minutely
on the peculiarities of this table. It may be observed that Wapping, as will
be seen, the water-side division, from the health-giving, the poison-destroying
breezes of the Thames, maintains, as usual, the first position, whether in the
aggregate or the specialities of these diseases. There is no death from Smallpox;
the solitary death from Fever was that of a patient brought in mistake,
and occurred in the Cholera Hospital. Of the 62 deaths under the head of
Cholera, 51 were those of persons conveyed there from the various parishes
of the district, inclusive of 3 from St. George's-in-the-East. The general
result of these deaths, apart from Cholera and Diarrhœa, regarded exceptionally,
is 11 per cent. less than in the previous year. The amount of Fever is
20 per cent less—a fact worthy of note. The advanced months of summer
were intensaly zymotic and unhealthy, so that the lesser amount of this
disease tends to confirm my impression at the outbreak of the epidemic, in