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when it was 20.4. There has been no rate approaching
these rates since 1850, when it was 21.0.
Comparing the five groups of districts into which
London is divided, the death rate was highest in
the Central (23'8), and Eastern (23.0) and lowest
in the Northern (19.1); in the South district it was
(19.8), and in the West district (19.2).
The mean temperature of the air was 50°.7; that
of the first quarter being 43°.4; of the second
quarter 52 ° .5 ; of the third quarter 62°.7; of the
fourth quarter 44.1. The mean temperature of the
first quarter was 4.7, and of the third quarter was
3.o above the average of 113 years. The rain-fall
amounted to 18.0 inches, being 7*3 below the average.
The deficiency occurred in each quarter, but was
most marked in the last two quarters.
The water supply of London, was of better average
quality than in any of the previous sixteen years,
The water of the Southwark Company contained
both greater maximum, and average amounts of
organic matter, than any of the other waters. This
unfavourable position is doubtless due to the inadequate
storage capacity, which it at present
possesses, whereby the exclusion of flood-water from
the reservoirs cannot be secured. This Company is
at present engaged in carrying out works similar to
those of the Lambeth and Grand Junction Companies
for collecting subterranean water from the gravel
beds adjoining the river, so as to avoid being
dependent upon the river itself when the latter is
in flood.
SANITARY WORK.
The number of houses and other premises