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to the
BOARD OF WORKS FOR THE LIMEHOUSE
DISTRICT.
Gentlemen,
In laying before you my Annual Report of the mortality
of the District, it is not only necessary to give an account of
the distinctions in disease, and the ages at which the several deaths
occurred, but also to localise those diseases, iu order to make such a
presentment of any practical value.
This has been summarily done in Table I, accompanied by the
details in Table Il* of the Appendix.
As there has been no yearly Report since my introduction to
office, I am unable to make any comparison satisfactorily with the
preceding states of the mortality. Nor is this of much consequence,
for as the census of the present year affords the only correct data by
which to estimate the true sanatory condition of the District, the
absence of such a record is of no great importance. The weekly
reports of the Registrar-General, and through this gentleman, the
returns furnished to me from the Registrars of the Sub-Districts, and
the elaborate reports, in numerous instances, of the medical officers of
health, will afford information quite sufficient to enable me to arrive
at a conclusion as to the actual and comparative sanitary condition of
our own locality.
It will be seen that the deaths for the year ending Lady-day,
1861, amount to 1,336, of which number 659, or nearly one-half, are
those of children under 5 years. The births are 1,819, which gives
an increase of 483 to the population.
In order to simplify any deductions I may make, it may be
advisable in noting down the census for 1861, to precede it with that
for the year 1851.