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Hoxton New Town is however accounted for by inclusion of St. Lukes
Workhouse, which institution supplies a large number of deaths and few
births.
In Table I. are set forth the deaths from all causes at different ages
during the year. 48 per cent, of all the deaths occurred in children
under 5 years of ago. The same proportion held in 1862. In 1861 the
proportion was 4!) per cent.
In analysing Table I. we find that the causes of death stand in the
order of their destructiveness as follows: 1. Phthisis and Scrofula, which
may be classed together, cutting off 580 lives, or 14 per cent.
2. Laryngitis, Bronchitis, and Pneumonia, classed together as lung
inflammations, destroying 536 persons, of whom 295 were children under
5 years of age. 3. Brain Diseases, including Convulsions and Apoplexy,
carried off 425 persons. 4. Scarlatina occupies the highest place
amongst the epidemics. It destroyed 244 persons, of whom 194 were
children. 5. Atrophy and Debility, terms of uncertain meaning, are the
causes assigned for 155 deaths. 6. Fever, carried off 146 persons.
From this number must however be deducted 36, which belong to
St. Luke's, leaving 110 as the proper fever mortality of Shoreditch.
7. Diarrhœa was tho cause of 133 deaths, chiefly of young children.
8. Old Aye was tho end of 125 persons. 9. Whooping Cough destroyed
119 children. 10. Small Pox destroyed 113 persons, including 3
belonging to St. Luke's. 11. 82 persons, 45 being children, perished
from some form of Violence. These were mostly the subjects of Coroner's
Inquests. 12. Prematurity of Birth and Malformations, conditions
seriously compromising tho chances of life, account for the deaths of 71
children, being mostly new born infants. 13. 14. 15. Diphtheria
destroyed 36 persons, Measles 34, and Erysipelas 33.
Small Pox and Vaccination.—In previous reports I have entered very
fully into the defects of legislation and administration as applied to the
reduction of Small Pox. A table contained in the report for 1862
exhibits the progress of Vaccination since 1854. The remarkable fact
was made apparent that in 1856, the Vaccinations were 69 per cent. of
the registered births, and tho actual number of Vaccinations reported by
the Official Vaccinators was 3280; whilst since that period both the