James'e Budget Jan 6, 1882 (a weekly edition of the St. James's Gazette)
As extracted by  "Bev Edmonds"

The Registrar-General's report shows that in London 2,386 births and 2,079 deaths were registered during last week. Allowing for increase in population, ....................? exceeded by 147, and the deaths by 185, the average numbers ..? corresponding week of the last 10 years. The annual death rate from...auses, which had slowly increased in the four preceding weeks from 19.9....?2.5 per 1,000, further rose last week to 28.3. The 2,079 deaths included 32 from small pox, 61 from measles, 43 from scarlet fever, 18 from diphtheria, 124 from whooping cough, 2 from typhus fever, 23 from enteric fever, one from continued fever, 10 from diarrhoea, one from dysentery, and not one from simple cholera. The deaths from respiratory organs, which had been 434 and 411 in the two previous weeks, rose to 596 last week, and exceeded the corrected weekly average by 52. Different forms of violence caused 86 deaths: 80 were the result of negligence or accident, among which were 29 from fractures and contusions, 9 from burns and scalds, 7 from drowning, 2 from poison, and 28 infants under one year of age from suffocation.

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