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net mortality for the year 1882 was 505—a death-rate of
nearly 17 per 1,000. The density of the population in the
Golden Square Sub-District is 215 persons per acre, and in the
Berwick Street Sub-District 169 persons per acre.
The mortality from zymotic diseases during the year has
been 57, and there have been in addition, 4 other deaths among
zymotic cases removed from the Parish to extra-Parochial
Hospitals. Vide table II, page 125.
Of Fever, Small Pox, and Diphtheria, 44 cases came under
notice during the year; but many cases may not have been
known, there being no law requiring that notice of such cases
be given to the Sanitary Authority. Of these 44 cases, 7 were
of Small Pox, 11 of Enteric or Typhoid Fever, 15 of Scarlet
Fever, and 11 of Diphtheria. Seventeen cases—5 of Enteric
Fever, 4 of Scarlet Fever, 3 of Diphtheria, and 5 of Small
Pox—were removed to extra-Parochial Hospitals.
During the year 1882, 47 bodies were removed into the
Mortuary. In one case disinfection was required, and the
removal of the corpse was probably the means of preventing the
spread of infectious disease. In 21 cases bodies were removed
from the presence of families generally living in a single room,
and where, but for the public Mortuary, the living would have
lived and slept in presence of a decomposing corpse, upon which,
possibly, a post mortem examination would have to be made
before the interment could take place. In 4 cases the bodies
have been removed from hotels or lodging-houses. 11 Inquests
have been held upon bodies lying in the Mortuary, and 11
post mortem examinations for judicial purposes have been made
in the Examination Room which adjoins the Mortuary.