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the mortality of 1860, but does not reach the
mortality of 1859. Compared with the five preceding
years it presents a larger mortality than any
year except 1859. It is still, however, forty-two
below the average of death of the parish in the ten
years preceding the introduction of active sanitary
measures.
ZYMOTIC DISEASE.
In examining the Tables of Mortality for the
purpose of ascertaining to what classes of disease
the higher mortality is due, we are at once struck
with the fact that the class of zymotic diseases have
been unusually fatal. The following Table will
shew the number and nature of these diseases in
each division of the parish:—
1861.
Names of Diseases.
St. James's
Square.
Golden
Square.
Berwick
Street.
Total.
Small Pox
..
1
1
Measles
4
ft
10
19
Scarlet Fever & Diphtheria
11
9
12
32
Hooping Cough
5
11
31
47
Diarrhœa
2
2
6
10
Typhus and Typhoid
1
1
• •
2
Total
23
29
59
111
The average death from these diseases in the
parish during the last six years has been ninety-six,
so that the number this year is fifteen above the
average. The increase has been chiefly with scarlet
fever and hooping cough.