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REPORT.
Gentlemen,
I have the honour to submit the 18th Annual
Report upon the Public Health and Sanitary condition
of the Hamlet for the year 1873-4.
I will, as usual, first give the statistics of births and
deaths, as they afford the simplest and perhaps the
best indication as to the well-being and health of the
inhabitants. By table I. it will be seen that the total
births, 3,850, were 235 below, and the total deaths,
2,108, were 199 above those of the previous year.
The birth rate however was 40 per 1,000 of the
population, which is about 4.5 per 1,000 above what
appears to be the normal rate for the whole country,
and nearly G per 1000 above the rate (34.1) for the
Metropolis.
With respect to this continuous high birth rate
year after year, I will only remark that it is a strong
testimony to the salubrity of the Hamlet and prosperity
of the inhabitants, and these conditions may therefore
be accepted as the primary causes of such exceptionally
prolific results.
The death rate for the year was 21 per 1,000 population
living, compared with 20 the previous year. In
calulating these results I have kept to the figures at
which I have estimated the population during the
whole year, and used in my reports to the Health
Committee, viz. 97,000, but I believe the present population
of the Hamlet to be nearer 100,000. The death
rate for the whole Metropolis, during the same period,
was 22.7 per 1000 population.