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in the Northern 2.38, in the Southern 2.66, and in the
Eastern it was 2.65. Compared with the previous year, a
sensible decrease may be observed in the death rate. In
plain figures, we find that for every 10,000 persons in the
Hamlet there were 221 deaths. Thus, if we take account
of the natural increase to the population, we find that the
percentage of mortality during 1863, compared with that
of the entire metropolis, was as 9.2 to 10.2.
The next Table gives the details of mortality in the
Hamlet, as in former years. And here, again, we may congratulate
ourselves on an evident improvement; the general
average of mortality for every 10,000 persons living being
221 in 1863, against 239 in 1862. The increase of
population I have estimated at 2,300, the actual figures
employed being—1862, 76,825; 1863, 79,124. It will
be seen that the greater proportion of this increase has taken
place in the East Ward, where the number of inhabitants to
the acre has risen from 54 in 1862 to 68 in 1863.