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occurring in Hotels or lodging-houses. Upon bodies
lying in the Mortuary 26 Inquests have been held
and 17 post mortem examinations for judicial purposes ,
have been made.
The following number of Deaths were registered
as having occurred in St. James's during the
year 1879:—
First Quarter
173
Second Quarter
172
Third Quarter
81
Fourth Quarter
182
Gross mortality for year 1879
608
Deduct Deaths of Non-Parishioners
Dying in the Workhouse
38
Dying in the Throat Hospital
7
45
563
Add Deaths among Zymotic cases
removed to extra-Parochial
Hospitals
5
Net mortality for the year 1879
568
568 deaths in a population of 33,500 is a death
rate of rather less than 17 per 1000.
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