Report on the sanitary condition of the Parish of St. John, Hampstead for the year 1893.

  • Hampstead (London, England). Parish. Vestry.
Date:
1894
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Credit: Report on the sanitary condition of the Parish of St. John, Hampstead for the year 1893. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    5 Of these, 605 were non-parishioners; 20 parishioners died in the North-Western Hospital, and 60 in the Workhouse. Of the 91 parishioners who died in outlying Institu tions, 55 succumbed in hospitals; 25 in asylums, and the remainder in institutions and other places. Special Causes of Death.—The deaths of parishioners from the seven principal zymotic diseases, after correction for those of our parishioners who died in hospitals outside our district, are equal to a ratio of 1*3 per 1000 living inhabitants against a ratio of 1.7 for the preceding year, whilst that for London was equivalent to 3.1, and for the Northern districts 2.86. The following table will show at a glance the diminution or excess of deaths in 1893 from the seven principal zymotic diseases:— Causes of death. 1893. 1892. Diminution in 1893. Excess in 1893. Small-Pox 2 – – 2 Measles 1 25 24 Scarlet Fever 20 5 15 Diphtheria 36 27 – 9 Whooping Cough 6 22 16 — Enteric & Typhoid Fever 8 2 — 6 Diarrhœa 22 15 – 7 Total 95 96 40 39 Thus, whilst under the headings of Small-Pox, Scarlet Fever, Diphtheria, Enteric Fever, and Diarrhoea there has