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of eighty, died in this quarter, and as many as 121 are within
the age of 60 to 80—48 of these were from bronchitis alone,
and 27 from natural decay, accelerated by the cold.
In St. Mary's district the death-rate is 23.3 per 1,000, and
the birth-rate 37.5, and taking the two registration districts as
a whole they are 22.78, and 30.56 per 1,000 of the estimated
population. The deaths from zymotic diseases are 65.
Scarlet fever was fatal to 12 children ; it was the prevailing
epidemic of the season, and has not yet subsided.
Diseases of the respiratory organs (not including consumption)
were fatal to 164 persons, a proportion of acute and chronic
bronchitis much higher than natural.
Fifty-four inquests were held in the parish, about half being
deaths from violence or unnatural, the other half sudden deaths,
or from natural causes; in several instances inquests held upon
old persons and' young children having no medical attendance
previous to death, medical men therefore being unable to give
a true certificate of the cause of death, a ground of suspicion of
neglect arises. A larger number than usual of persons died in
the Hospital and Workhouse this quarter, 108, or 18 per cent.
of the total deaths, in fact more than one in every five of the
dying are medically attended, and are buried at the public
expense.