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St Martin-in-the-Fields 1863
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for St. Martin-in-the-Fields]
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MEDICAL OFFICER'S REPORT,
1863.
Report on the Health of the Parish of St. Martin-in-theFields
for the Year 1863.
There have been registered in the parish during the
year 1803, 614 births and 593 deaths. The following
Table shews by comparison with former years that
1863 was the most unhealthy year since 1859. A
comparison of deaths from the prevalent epidemics will
be interesting, although amongst this class of diseases
there is no such difference with preceding years to
account for the general increase. We had last year
12 deaths from small-pox, and only 5 from this disease
during the eight preceding years; measles exhibited but
little variation from the general average; scarlet fever has
been a very fatal disease for the last two years, from
whooping cough and diarrhoea the number of deaths
has been about the average; but fever has been only
fatal in 17 cases, against 53 in 1862.
The deaths in children under 5 have not exceeded
the average, nor have those of persons over 60 years;
the great increase in the mortality has been among
Works Executed and Chargeable upon the "Sewers Rate."
| £ | s. | d. | £ | s. | d. | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 8 | 7 | 3 | ||||
| Rent of Water-meter, four quarters | 0 | 10 | 0 | 8 | 17 | 3 |
| 1 | 7 | 6 | ||||
| Rent of water-meter, four quaters | 0 | 10 | 0 | 1 | 17 | 6 |
| 2 | 12 | 0 | ||||
| Rent of water meter, four quarters | 0 | 10 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 0 |
| Repairs to urinals and drains (Messrs. Abbott and Hop wood) | 1 | 3 | 4 | |||
| Mr. Kendall.—Repairs to urinals, Duke's Court, &c. | 0 | 11 | 0 | |||
| Parish labourers' wages for cleansing urinals | 43 | 19 | 10 | |||
| 59 | 10 | 11 | ||||