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District appears 215 persons per acre, and that of the Berwick
Street Sub-District as 169 persons per acre.
The net mortality for the year 1885 was 451 deaths.
Taking the population at 29,805, 451 deaths gives a death
rate of 15.1 per 1,000.
The mortality from Zymotic diseases during the year has
been 36, and there has been in addition 1 other death among
Zymotic cases removed from the parish to extra-Parochial
Hospitals. Vide Table II., page 155.
Of Fever and Small Pox, 43 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 43 cases, 18 were of Small
Pox, 2 of Enteric (Typhoid) Fever, 22 of Scarlet Fever, and 1
was certified as due to Choleraic Diarrhoea. 33 of the
43 cases—18 of Small Pox, and 21 of Scarlet Fever—
were removed to extra-Parochial Hospitals.
During the year 1885, 33 bodies were removed into the
Mortuary, in 8 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 would have to be made before interment could
take place. In 2 cases the bodies have been removed from
hotels or lodging-houses. Twenty inquests have been held
upon bodies lying in the Mortuary, and 20 post-mortem
examinations for judicial purposes have been made in the
Examination Room which adjoins the Mortuary.