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Report of the Health of the Parish of St. Martin-in-the
Fields for the Quarter ending September 27, 1802.
In the summer quarter, ending on September 27???
we had 128 births and 141 deaths, being an excess???
23 deaths. In the corresponding quarter of 186???
there were only 127 deaths; and in that of 1800, 94???
The number of deaths from epidemic or zymoti???
diseases during the quarter was 40; last year, 22???
1860, 11. The most remarkable difference this year???
being 16 deaths from typhus and scarlet fever, whil???
in the two preceding years the numbers were onl???
3 and 2. Diarrhoea has also been rather more preva???
lent this year; in 1860 there were only 3 deaths from???
this cause, this year 10. The relation of this disease to???
hot weather is exhibited in the greater degree of cold???
in the summer of 1860. From diseases of the brain???
there have been 8 deaths in the quarter, from diseases???
of the heart 7, from consumption 14, other diseases o???
the lungs 10, from diseases of the digestive organs 15???
from old age 10, 4 being over 80.
The deaths under the age of 5 amounted to 55???
over the age of 60 to 26, at the intermediate ages 60???
So that we had a larger proportion of deaths than???
usual at the middle periods of life. 44 and 45 death???
occurred at these ages in the summer quarter of 186???
and 1861, while they amounted this year to 60. A???
the cases of typhus fever have been in persons at thes???
ages, as well as all the cases of consumption, all th???
deaths from diseases of the brain and of the heart???
and also those of the organs of digestion and of th???
kidneys.
There have been 146 new cases of sickness in thi
workhouse; 64 of these were from age and debility
Among the out-door poor there have been in tin
three months 181 new cases of sickness. Of thesi
16 cases of measles, 5 of scarlatina, 3 whooping-cough