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The division of the District into two Sub-Districts was
abolished by the Registrar-General on April 1st, 1884.
The net mortality for the year 1884 was 476 deaths.
Taking the population at 29,865—476 deaths gives a deathrate
of 15.94 per 1,000.
The mortality from Zymotic diseases during the year has
been 18, and there have been, in addition, 16 other deaths
among Zymotic cases removed from the Parish to extraParochial
Hospitals. Vide Table II., page 245.
Of Fever, Small Pox, and Diphtheria, 104 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
104 cases, 21 were of Small Pox, 1 of Enteric or Typhoid
Fever, 79 of Scarlet Fever, and 1 of Diphtheria. Eightyeight
cases—19 of Small Pox, t)8 of Scarlet Fever, and
1 of Typhoid—were removed to extra-Parochial Hospitals.
During the year 1884, 39 bodies were removed into the
Mortuary. In 14 cases bodies were removed from the presence
of families generally living in a single room, and where,
but for the public Mortuary, the family 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 interment could take place. In 11 cases the bodies
have been removed from hotels or lodging-houses. Twenty-
one Inquests have been held upon bodies lying in the
Mortuary, and 15 post-mortem examinations for judicial
purposes have been made in the Examination Room which
adjoins the Mortuary.