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are of far more importance for the protection of a
district against Cholera, than removal or disinfection
of filth after the disease has actually made its
appearance."
"It is important for the public very distinctly to
remember that pains taken and costs incurred for
the purposes to which this Memorandum refers
cannot in any event be regarded as wasted. The
local conditions which would enable Cholera, if imported,
to spread its infection in this country, are
conditions which day by day, in the absence of
Cholera, create and spread other diseases; diseases,
which as being never absent from the country, are
in the long run, far more destructive than Cholera;
and the sanitary improvements which would justify
a sense of security against any apprehended importation
of Cholera, would, to their extent, though
Cholera should never re-appear in England, give
amply remunerative results in the prevention of
those other diseases."
STATISTICS OF LONDON.
The estimated population at the middle of the
year was 4,019,361 persons The births numbered
137,495, and the deaths 83,050. The excess of
registered births over deaths was 54, 445, and the
estimated increase of population during the year
64,057. The number of marriages celebrated in
1884 was, 35,367, giving a proportion of 17 .6 persons
married to 1,000 inhabitants. This is the lowest
rate yet recorded in London. The birth rate (33.7)
was the lowest recorded in any year since 1860.
when it was 33.6. The death rate (20.3) was the lowest
on record, the next lowest being theprevious year