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MEDICAL OFFICER'S REPORT,
1868.
Report on the Health of the Parish of St. Martin-in-theFields
for the Tear 1868.
There have been during the year 670 births and 631
deaths. One hundred and thirty-one of the deaths
took place in Charing-cross Hospital, a much larger
number than in any former year. This large proportion
of hospital deaths gives us the appearance of
having a rate much above the average of an equal
population with our own; but in estimating the percentage
of deaths, we must deduct all the deaths in
the hospital except those of our own parishioners.
Of children under five years of age there have been
229 deaths, and of persons over 60 years 135. There
have been ninety-five deaths in the year. Four being
cases of smallpox, 13 of measles, 22 of scarlatina, 10
of the deaths were caused by whooping-cough, 28 by
diarrhœa, and 28 by fever. There were 78 deaths
c