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During the year, the mortality of the whole of London
amounted to 77,723, a high rate of death, which was greater
than any experienced since 1854. Indeed, the mortality has
not been so high since the influenza year of 1847 and the
cholera years 1849 and 1854.
The average rate of mortality for the whole of London
having amounted to 26.35 per 1000, whilst the average from
1851 to 1861 was 23.6 per 1000.
The highest average death rate of any of the Metropolitan
Districts between 1851 and 1861 amounted to 28l8 per 1000,
whilst the lowest average death rate in Great Britain between
1851 and 1861 occurred in the towns of Eastbourne, Glendale,
and Rothbury, and numbered 15 per 1000.
The average rate of mortality tor this District between the
years 1851 and 1861 amounted to 16 8 per 1000, and was the
lowest of any Metropolitan District savo one. But this year
the Lewisham District contributed its quota to the increased
rate of mortality of the Metropolis, although in one portion
of the District the death rate was small. Thus, in
Blackheath the deaths were at the rate of 15.28 to 1000.
Lewisham (without Union Workhouse) 18 04 „
Sydenham 17.36 „
Penge 16.70 „
whilst for the whole District, including the Union Workhouse
and Institutions, the mortality was at the rate of 18.70 to
the 1000.
The mortality tables appended, give a detailed account of
the causes of death, and the different ages at which death took
place in the District, classified according to the plan adopted
by the Registrar General. From these tables I have made
the following abstract. Thus
100 deaths took place from zymotic diseases,
Out of which 8 died of small pox.
10 „ of measles.
36 ,, of scarlet fever.
10 „ from diptheria.
15 ,, from whooping cough.
19 ,, from typhus or typhoid fever.
7 „ from erysipelas.
29 ,, from diarrhœa.