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"The five leading divisions of London, viz., the West, North,
Central, East, and South groups of districts, exhibit differences
of death rate; all of those large areas being planted wholly
or partially with thick populations, and those being the
healthiest which are endowed most liberally with open space.
"The Central group, which includes St. Giles's, Strand,
Holborn, Clerkenwell, St. Luke's, East and West London,
and City, suffers a mortality of 2.433 per cent.
" The Eastern division, comprising Shoreditch, Bethnal
Green, Whitechapel, St. George's-in-the-East, Stepney, Mile
End Old Town, and Poplar, had a death rate almost the
same, viz., 2.423.
"In the Northern group, Marylebone, Hampstead, Pancras,
Islington, and Hackney, it was decidedly less, being 2.319.
"The Western division, which includes Kensington, Chelsea,
St. George's, Hanover Square, Westminster, St. Martin's-inthe-Fields,
and St. James's, Westminster, was in the four
years, 1863—6, the healthiest of all the five divisions; but
last year its death rate was in excess, though only in the
slightest degree, of that which prevailed in the South districts.
In the West, the rate was 2.202; in the South, 2.198
per 100.
"This last (South) division, stretching on the Surrey side of
the river from its western limit at Putney to Greenwich and