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Parish of Saint George the Martyr, Southwark.
Tubercular—disease shows no signs at subsidence. The deaths from tabes—???
tion of the young—vary little from year to year; they were 61; in the previous year
Consumption has proved more fatal by 40 death than in the previous year.
Disease of heart shewed a decline of 4, from the number returned in 1876—7.
There were registered 197 deaths from diseases of the brain and nervous system,
more than in the year 1876—7.

Bronchitis as usual heads the death list, having caused 186 deaths; five in exce???
the previous year.
To premature birth, debility and atrophy, 74 deaths were referred. Twelve de???
were registered from suffocation. Male 42, had gone to bed intoxicated, and was for
dead, with his mouth pressed on the pillow, Eleven infants were suffocated in bed, their ???
varying from a few days to one year. The main cause of this kind of death, the Regis???
General attributes to either one or both parents going to bed in a state of intoxicat???
Females 19, and 45, were found with their heads downward, one in a cistern and the of
in a water butt. but whether from accident or design, was not known. Burns and ???
caused two deaths. Female 11 months, by the upsetting of boiling water, and females
by falling into the fire during a fit. Six persons destroyed themselves. Males 22, 39,
58, and female 59, hung themselves; female 39, poisoned herself with Laudanum.
Seven hundred and forty of those who died ware under five years of age, 322 ???
from 40 to 80 year, 14 were upwards of 80, and two of these, one living in Chapel Bu???
ings, and the other in the Drapers' Alms-houses, had reached 92 and 98 years.
Peabody's Buildings, Blackfriars Road, are occupied by 1451 souls, amongst these
deaths have occurred; consequently the death rate was a little more than 15 in 1000.
the deaths outside the boundary of these buildings had been at the same rate as the
within, 442 fewer deaths would have been registered.
The causes of death were as follows:—from premature birth 4, from tabes and hyd???
cephalus 2, from convulsions 3, from consumption 5, from disease of the heart 2, form
disease of the lungs—excluding consumption—5, and from diarrhœa one.
There have been held in the district during the year 109 inqueasts.
The disinfecting, apparatus has been used 101 times. The number at articles disinfec???
were 798, of which 3½ were mattresses, 93 beds, 54 bolsters, 170 pillows, 98 sheets,