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DISEASES.
CHRISTCHURCH.
ST
SAVIOUR.
Totals.
Totals.
Zymotic
6
9
Dropsy, &c.
6
7
Tubercular
8
8
Nervous
3
5
Heart
2
4
Lungs
19
19
Digestive Organs
3
..
Kidneys
..
3
Childbirth
..
..
Joins, Bones, &c.
..
..
Skin
..
..
Malformation
..
..
Premature Birth
1
..
Atrophy
..
..
Old Age
..
..
Suddenness
..
..
Violence
2
4
Not specified
..
..
TOTALS
50
59
The death rate was 21.8 per thousand of the population, and in
order to render an exact calculation I have added the deaths
which occurred in Institutions outside the District, and deducted
those which occurred in Christchurch "Workhouse belonging to
other Parishes. The corrected death rate will then read 22.4.
Small-pox was epidemic throughout the year. A severe
outbreak occurred in the Boys' Home in Southwark Street, and 14
boys were removed to the Hospitals under the control of the
Metropolitan Asylums Board. All the inmates of the Home were
carefully re-vaccinated, and every suspected case was at once
isolated in another dwelling. After a period of three months—
a period of grave anxiety—the epidemic ceased.
Thirty-six cases were removed from other parts of the District,
and of this number five terminated fatally, in addition to one fatal
case removed from the Boys' Home.