This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1858 Excerpt: ...diseases rose in the Metropolis generally during the two years referred to from 49 to 52 per 10,000 persons living, they fell from 50 to 43 in the same number of inhabitants in the Strand District. So, likewise, in regard of the mortality from Fever. During the preceding year the number of deaths which occurred in the ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1858 Excerpt: ...diseases rose in the Metropolis generally during the two years referred to from 49 to 52 per 10,000 persons living, they fell from 50 to 43 in the same number of inhabitants in the Strand District. So, likewise, in regard of the mortality from Fever. During the preceding year the number of deaths which occurred in the London Fever Hospital of persons sent into that Institution by the authorities of the Strand Union was 18; during the past year it was only 5: being a decrease of more than two-thirds the number of the previous year. And while during the year ending Lady-day, 1857, the mortality from Fever was at the rate of 11 out of every 10,000 persons residing in the Strand District, during the year ending Lady-day, 1858, this number had fallen to 8. The annexed Table, which shows the number of deaths occurring during the past year in the three SubDivisions of the Strand District from each of the principal varieties of Zymotic disease, contains further information on this subject, on which, however, the limits of this Report do not permit me to enlarge. From this inquiry, then, it clearly appears that the decrease in the mortality from the class of Zymotic or Epidemic disease, which took place in, the District during the past year, has been a large one; viz. from a total number of 234 deaths from these maladies in the year ending Lady-day, 1857, to 193 in that ending Lady-day, 1858--making a saving of 41 lives from these causes of death alone during one year out of a population of 45,000. Secondly, as to Sickness. A correct Return of all the Cases of Illness occurring in any locality would obviously furnish far more accurate indications of the state of its Public Health than could possibly be accomplished by Bills of Mortality. But to obtain such a Return ...
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