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for houses let in lodgings has led to great licence in house-farming and
house-crowding.
The prevailing idea held by some landlords that because a house is
on the register it is thereby degraded is, I am sure, a mistaken one. It
must be to the benefit of landlords to have tenants taught cleanly habits,
and by frequent inspection to protect the property from what in many
cases is wanton destruction, whilst it is distinctly advantageous to persons
living in many of our houses, and especially tenemented houses, to have
them placed under these by-laws, by which they are kept in a better
sanitary condition.
The death-rate is lower than that for the last year, and although it is
some 3 per 1,000 more than the rate for London as a whole, yet when the
character of the district is taken into consideration it cannot, I think, be
looked upon as unsatisfactory.
The Zymotic disease rates, with the exception of that for Enteric
Fever, were less than those of last year.
Upon the whole the health of the district for the year may be said to
have been satisfactory.

The Registrar-General's estimate of the population at the middle of
1900 was 125,138.
The percentage of the population dying away from home in the
Workhouse Infirmary and the various public hospitals was 29.3 for the
year.