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MEDICAL OFFICER'S REPORT,
1867.
Report on the Health of the Parish of St. Martin-in-theFields
for the Year 1867.
There have been in 1867, 595 births and 561 deaths.
Of children under 5 years of age, there have been 207
deaths, and of persons over 6O years, 117. There
have been 79 deaths from zymotic diseases, against 82
last year: 8 of the deaths were caused by smallpox, 6
by measles, 6 by scarlatina, 36 by whooping-cough,
12 by diarrhoea, and 11 by typhus fever. There were
75 deaths from consumption, and 92 from other
diseases of the lungs. In the workhouse the number
of deaths was 68; in Charing Cross Hospital, 61.
In comparing the mortality of the year 1867 with
that of preceding years, we find the number of deaths
smaller than any, although it is only less by 5 than the
year 1866. The mortality from smallpox has exceeded
that of any of the last 10 years, except 1863. Measles
and scarlatina have been below the average, while
whooping-cough has been very fatal : 11 deaths from
diarrhoea show the smallest number for 10 years, as do
those from fever. We have had no death from delirium
tremens. We may observe how closely the number of
deaths annually approximate in many classes of disease,
while in others there are remarkable differences. From