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in which disease almost threatened to be perpetual. Robert's
Place has been so much improved in general cleanliness
since it has been paved with York Stone, that it might
serve as an inducement to benefit other places, as defective
as Robert's Place was, by giving them similar advantages of
sanitary improvement. The street was filthy; it is now
clean; and I believe there is a better consequent disposition
in the occupiers of the houses, to maintain more perfect order
in their homes, as well as in the public thoroughfare. The
mortality in the street in 1858 was little more than one-half
of that in 1857. The deaths in York Street, although high,
from some cause at present not easily explained, were less also;
in 1857 they were 28, including 7 from zymotic causes,
in 1858, 22, inclusive of 3 belonging to the latter class.
The mortality in the Centre Ward, besides being low, is
so distributed, and so similar to that of last year, that I can
pass it with little comment. One case of Small Pox, and
one of Diphtheria, were registered ; the former in Redman's
Row, and the latter in Bancroft's Place. A material improvement
is commenced in that part of the Ward, to the
south of Stepney Church, called Clare Hall Gardens, in the
erection of houses of a superior class to those which formerly,
we may almost say, encumbered the ground; for, from their
numerous defects as habitations, as well as from the poverty
of their inhabitants, they kept the parochial surgeons continually
supplied with severe cases of febrile and correlative
diseases.
In the South Ward two cases of Diphtheria appear in the
returns. Both occurred in Lucas Street.
The two Hospitals, so called, both devoted to and supported
by members of the Jewish religion, are not places
devoted to the treatment of sick persons. The deaths are
but few, and confined to persons of advanced years.