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The average number of deaths from the principal zymotic diseases
for the last twelve years is 324; so that the number for 1868 is 70
above the average.
The number of deaths from all causes which took place in infants
and children, under five years of age, was 793. The corresponding
numbers for the last eleven years having been 663, 656, 628, 624,
707, 724, 728, 789, 700, 736, and 663; the average being 692; so
that these deaths were 101 above the average, and 130 more than in
the preceding year.
303 deaths occurred at and above 60, including 52 at and above
80 ; these numbers in the preceding year were 331 and 44.
265 deaths arose from pulmonary diseases, the number for 1867
being 289.
The number of deaths in the Workhouse was 178; the numbers
for the last nine years having been 120, 137, 160, 172, 158, 167, 174,
156, and 186.
26 deaths took place in Corporation Buildings, being nearly twice
the number of the preceding year, viz. : 14.
23 deaths of prisoners occurred in the House of Correction, viz.:
2 from bronchitis, 3 from paralysis, 9 from consumption, 5 from inflammation
of the lungs, 2 from typhus, 1 from heart disease, and 1
from accident.
3 deaths took place in the House of Detention; two of them in
prisoners.
The numbers of deaths in the prisons in the preceding year
were 32 and 5 respectively.
The accidental deaths were 23, viz.: 7 from fractures and contusions,
3 from burns and scalds; 12 from suffocation, and 1 from being
run over by a cab.
2 deaths arose from murder; and 6 from suicide, viz.: 2 from
poison, 1 from drowning, and 3 from hanging.
85 inquests were held in the year, including the 25 upon the
prisoners in the Houses of Correction and Detention.
Further particulars of the deaths, according to the causes and
ages, will be found in the table appended to this report.
It is thus evident that I cannot report so favorable a state of the
mortality of the parish for the past year, as I was able to do in regard
to that of the preceding year, 1867.