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most direct sources of pood health which we can have
recourse to. There arc few large towns on the
continent without their swimming baths, and no city
in this respect is so ill supplied as London.
In the first quarter of the year ending Saturday,
April 2, there were 162 births and 187 deaths.
This large excess of deaths is very remarkable; but
we know that, even in this part of London, many
births escape registration. In the corresponding
quarter of last year there were 159 deaths, showing
this year an excess of 28; all to be accounted for
in the increased number of deaths in persons over
60, there having been 88 in the last quarter and
in the same time in 1863 only 69. Under 5 years
of age the deaths were 57. The deaths from
epidemic diseases amounted to 18; 2 small-pox, 1
measles, 3 scarlatina, 1 diarrhoea, 4 whooping-cough,
5 fever, 2 croup. While in the same quarter last
year the deaths were 30; 10 being from measles and
10 from scarlet fever; 24 of the deaths were caused by
consumption and 52 by other diseases of the lungs,
these diseases being the principal source of the increased
mortality, reaching the number of 74 this and
only 44 last year. There were 30 deaths from diseases
of the brain, 14 from diseases of the heart, 14 from
those of the digestive organs, and 12 from old age.
We have one death recorded from want, in a woman
carried from the streets in a state of exhaustion to
Charing Cross Hospital, where she died in spite of
every attempt to rally her.
In the quarter ending Saturday, July 2, 1864,
there have been 149 deaths, and in the corresponding
quarter of last year 147. The most fatal epidemic of
the quarter has been whooping-cough, from which
cause we have had 17 deaths. The deaths from smallpox
having fallen to 1 in last quarter, while in the
same time last year there were 6 deaths. Typhus fever
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