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in these Parishes. The following Table will show the Births
and Deaths in each Parish, arranged as to sex.
St. Margaret. St. John. Total Deaths Deaths
both . in
t.. t"\ t>* .1 ™ Parishes 111 10 Years
Births. Deaths. Births. Deaths. 185?_ lg56< Average.
M. F. M. F. M. F. M. F.
April 30 36 26 26 57 40 32 20 104 130 135—9
May 46 30 33 36 55 62 33 34 130 102 158—0
June 25 28 32 21 53 44 28 16 197 105 131—7
Total 107 | 94 91 | 83165 146 93 70 337 397 426—2
The present method of compiling the Death-Register,
renders it impossible to ensure accuracy as to residence. In
the foregoing numbers there were in the
Workhouse. Hospitals. Prisons. Barracks.
Westminster 30 House of Correction 6 Wellington 2
45 Scots Fusileers 2 Millbank Prison 3 Hyde Park 1
Coldstream Gds. 4
The majority of cases in the Westminster Hospital, are
returned without any address, and as patients are admitted
from all parts of the kingdom, I have no doubt the death rate
of these Parishes is unfairly increased; yet, the present return
must be considered a great source of congratulation, and affords
a good exemplification of the healthy state of the Parishes.
The illness return from the out-door poor has not been
forwarded with sufficient accuracy, to enable me to give the
precise numbers, I therefore prefer postponing any analysis
until the next Report. A reference to the Table of Diseases,
shows a marked decrease in the deaths from hooping cough,
for while in the previous three months they were 46, the
present numbers but 22; the same diminution is noticed in
diseases of the chest, bronchitis and pneumonia, for the
previous three months, numbering 106, while in the present
they only amount to 55; the deaths above seventy years of age
are nearly the same, but those under one year are 26 less.