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We may very properly congratulate ourselves on
having kept at bay so dreadful a disease as typhus,
and Mr. Orton holds us up as a pattern parish in
this respect. But the picture of death has another
side for us, and whilst the Medical Officer for Limehouse
speaks of our comparative freedom from fever,
he points to our terrible mortality from consumption.
Deaths from Consumption, 1862.
St. James's, Westminster, 113 or 155 in 1000 deaths.
St. Marylebone, 894 ,, 104 „ 1000 „
Limehouse, 134 „ 90 „ 1000 „
The practical value of our returns of disease is
seen in such facts as these. Whilst Limehouse must
be active in preventing the causes of typhus, it
behoves us to be alive to the much more insidious
causes of consumption, which makes our Parish the
grave of the young and hopeful.
WORK-ROOMS.
The following extract from my report laid before
Vestry on the 25th June, will bring to your
remembrance a subject which excited at the time very
general interest, and which I hope has drawn the
attention of the proprietors of large establishments
in this Parish to the necessity of ameliorating, as