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Deaths.
Births.
Excess.
St. James
528
861
333
Amwell
323
607
284
Pentonville
266
180
Goswell
300
351
Every year a number of the deaths of parishioners takes place in
general and special hospitals, and in Lunatic Asylums, situated in
other parishes. The estimated number of these for 1874 is 105.
The number of births being 2565, and of deaths 1417, the excess,
or the natural increase of the population, amounted to 1148.
The number of deaths arising from the principal zymotic diseases
in 1874 was 260; being an increase of 26 above that of the preceding
year. The numbers and the causes of the deaths taking place from
these principal zymotic diseases during the last 10 years are
exhibited in the subjoined table:—
Small Pox.
Measles.
Scarlet Fever.
Hoopiag Cough.
Typhus.
Diarrhœa.
Total.
1865
12
27
57
88
84
48
316
1866
6
42
59
95
93
47
342
1867
20
44
49
35
71
50
269
1868
4
58
106
69
112
45
394
1869
0
28
116
81
74
44
343
1870
6
63
122
19
70
40
320
1871
60
23
33
62
68
33
279
1872
15
35
20
105
76
23
274
1873
0
48
13
49
29
95
234
1874
2
63
71
38
31
55
260