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The mortality from Zymotic diseases during the year has been
18, and there have been in addition, 3 other deaths among
Zymotic cases removed from the Parish to extra-Parochial
Hospitals. Vide table II., page 137.
Of Fever, Small Pox, and Diphtheria, 53 cases came under
notice during the year; but many cases may not have been
known, there being as yet no law requiring that notice of such
cases be given to the Sanitary Authority. Of these 53 cases, 1
was of Small Pox, 7 of Enteric or Typhoid Fever, 44 of Scarlet
Fever, and 1 of Diphtheria. Thirty-five cases—1 of Small Pox,
4 of Enteric Fever, and 30 of Scarlet Fever—were removed to
extra-Parochial Hospitals.
During the year 1883, 40 bodies were removed into the
Mortuary. In 17 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 the
presence of a decomposing corpse, upon which, possibly, a post
mortem examination would have to be made before the interment
could take place. In 9 cases the bodies have been removed
from hotels or lodging-houses. Twenty-two Inquests have been
held upon bodies lying in the Mortuary, and 18 post mortem
examinations for judicial purposes have been made in the
Examination Room which adjoins the Mortuary.