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The number of dwelling-houses in the Sub-district was
ascertained at the Census of 1871 to be 1,738, or, with 38
in course of erection, 1,776. The number of inhabited
houses was, at the time of the Census, 1,589 ; it follows,
therefore, (the population in April, 1871, being 9,435,) that
the average number of persons to each house is within a
fraction of 6. Unfortunately dwellings fitted for the residences
of the very poor are not built in anything like
sufficient numbers to meet the yearly increase of that class,
hence overcrowding of certain portions of the Sub-district
has still to be deplored. Nevertheless, by efficient drainage,
and other sanitary improvements carried out in these poor
neighbourhoods, the fatality of Zymotic disease generally,
and of Fever especially, has of late years been very considerably
diminished. It is a circumstance exceedingly
gratifying to find that not a single death from Idiopathic
Fever, registered as such, occurred in the past year, either
amongst the poor or any other class of the population.
( Vide Table of Mortality.)
The following condensed Table will show the fluctuations
of the mortality due to the 7 principal Zymotic diseases, as
well as the percentage of deaths of this class of diseases, to
deaths from all causes during the 10 years 1861-70 :—