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and squares, as a rule, in sickness go away to be cared
for, and fatal cases, when they occur, are registered
elsewhere. On the other hand, the high mortality in
the last-mentioned streets scarcely represents the true
death-rate going on in this class of street, for a large
proportion of adults die in hospitals or a workhouse
infirmary, and are not counted as deaths in the street
or district in which they had lived, although they have
been counted as units of the population at the time of
taking the census. I have estimated that not less than
15 per cent, may be fairly added to the number of
deaths that get registered in some of the streets, where
the residents are very poor, and when being overtaken
by sickness are compelled to resort to the hospital or
workhouse a short time previous to death.
TABLE II.
The following Table shows the Annual, Quarterly, and Comparative
Mortality from the Zymotic Diseases:—
Cause of Death.
April,
May,
June,
July,
August,
Septem.
October,
Novem.
Decern.
January,
February,
March.
In the
Year.
Comparative Mortality
To the Total
Population.
Per 1,000
of the Pop.
Small Pox, Varicella .
1
1
2
1 in 51,542
0.019
Measles
7
8
14
46
75
1 in 1,374
0.727
Scarlatina
1
1
4
2
8
1 in 12,885
0.077
Diphtheria
7
3
4
3
17
1 in 6,063
0.165
Whooping Cough
30
13
11
16
70
1 in 1,472
0.679
Typhus, Typhoid
6
9
12
14
41
1 in 2,526
0.398
Pyaemia, Erysipelas
5
13
5
6
29
1 in 3,554
0.281
Diarrhoea, Choleric,
3
70
6
6
85
1 in 1,212
0.824
Diarrhoea,Dysentery
Totals
59
117
57
94
327
1 in 315
3.170
The chief and most fatal epidemic and contagious
diseases of the year have been measles and whooping
cough; these two diseases have destroyed 145 young