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District appears as 215 persons per acre, and that of the
Berwick Street Sub-District as 169 persons per acre.
The net mortality for the year 1887 was 426 deaths.
Taking the population at 29,865, 426 deaths gives a death
rate of 14.26 per 1,000.
The mortality from Zymotic diseases during the year has
been 29.
Of Fever and Diphtheria 76 cases came under notice during
the year; hut 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 cases 2 were
Diphtheria, 2 were Typhoid Fever, and 72 were Scarlet
Fever. 60 cases of Scarlet Fever and 2 of Typhoid were removed
to extra-Parochial Hospitals. 5 cases of Small-pox
occurred, all of which were removed to extra-Parochial
Hospitals.
During the year 1887, 21 bodies were removed into the
Mortuary. In 10 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 had to be made
before interment could take place. In 6 cases the bodies
have been removed from hotels or lodging-houses. Nineteen
inquests have been held upon bodies lying in the Mortuary,
and 19 post-mortem examinations for judicial purposes have
been made in the Examination Room which adjoins the
Mortuary.