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Parish of Saint George the Martyr, Southwark.

The deaths which have resulted from the chief zymotic disease, are given as ???
happened in each quarter, during the last five years.
This class of diseases, as I hare previously stated, comprehends fevers, and erupt???
diseases, as small-pox, measles, scarlet fever, enteric fever, cholera and diarrhœa. The
arise from animal or vegetable poisons, mainly the former. Air and water are the pa???
upon which they travel. Analagous disease affect cattle. The vegetable world suff???
from blight. In this case as with the animal world, the unhealthy are the most liable
be attacked. They prove alike injurious to the bodies and minds of those whom they attas???
The deaths they cause and which are about one quarter of the mortality—must not al???
be considered. Those, or the most of those who recover, have their constitutions damage
their strength undermined, and their lives shortened. One tenth of the existing blinds???
met with in the country, is due to them; as well as much of the deafness Blindness a
deafness are open and palpable results and to be seen of all; other injuries there a
which are not so patent, but smoulder on unrecognisable, rendering life a burden to the
possessor, and to those around.