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The Zymotic diseases are as follow:—Small Pox (8 registered)
7 in addition died in the Hospital, Haverstock Hill, Hampstead;
only 2 deaths are from Measles; 8 are from Diphtheria; 18 from
Whooping Cough; 16 Fever cases; which stand on the Register
thus:—Typhoid Fever with carbuncle, ditto with gout, ditto
with pulmonary congestion; Typhus; Gastric Fever; Puerperal
Fever; Blood poisoning; Relapsing Fever; Erysipelas 5;
Diarrhoea 5 ; making a total of 69.
The deaths from the Tubercular class of diseases amount to
80, of this the large number of 52 are persons in the prime of
life, carried off by consumption. The next fatal group of
diseases are inflammations and diseases of the lungs, carrying off
112 persons in the three months; 38 being children under 5 years
of age, and 42 being persons 60 and upwards; 18 very young
children died within the first few days and weeks after birth
from atrophy and exhaustion from bad nutrition; 18 deaths are
from violence and accident,including 2 infanticides and 2 suicides.
After the 11th November,when the weather began to be very cold
and humid, a large number of Bronchitis cases proved fatal.
With the exception of the Small Pox epidemic,which seems now
to have subsided, the season has been healthy.