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district were relatively fewer in proportion to population than in
the Town sub-district. The increase of 122 over the number in
1879, moreover, belongs almost entirely to the Town sub-district.
The deaths were equal to 162 per 1,000 deaths from all causes,
and to a rate of 2.9 per 1,000 persons living, as against 3.7 per
1000, the rate in all London, the decennial average being 3'0
per 1,000 in Kensington, and 3'9 per 1,000 in London. By way
of comparison it may be mentioned that in all England and Wales
the deaths from the Zymotic diseases were 156 in each thousand
deaths, the rate being 3.1 per 1,000 persons living in 1881, and
the decennial average being 3'4 per 1,000.
The Registrar-General, speaking of the Metropolis as a whole,
states that of each 1,000 deaths, 170 were assigned to one or
other of the chief zymotic diseases; this proportion corresponding
with the average for the decennium, but being much lower than the
proportion in any of the three previous decennia, in which it was
successively 209, 213 and 213. This fact and the fact that the
general mortality in the decennium 1871—80 was the "lowest on
record," are cited by the Registrar-General in evidence, that "the
sanitarv efforts of recent vears have not been unfruitful."