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REPORT.
Gentlemen,
In accordance with the provisions of
the Metropolis Local Management Act (18 and 19 Vict.,
c. 120, s. 132, and 25 and 26 v., c. 102, s. 43), I beg to
submit the Thirteenth Annual Report upon the state
of the public health and general sanitary condition of
the Hamlet, for the year ending March, 1869.
Births and Deaths.
By reference to Table I., it will be seen that the
number of births for the year is slightly below that of
the previous year, but 225 above the average of 5 previous
years, and shows an excess of births over deaths
of 1632.
The birth-rate per 1000 of the population living in
the Hamlet was 39.11, or within a fraction of 4 per
cent. The rate for the whole kingdom was 36.36, and
for the Metropolis 36.23 per 1000 population, being
only a little over 3½ per cent. in each case.
The same Table shows the number of deaths to
have been 52 above the average of 5 previous years;
this slight increase is chiefly attributable to the severe
epidemic of scarlatina, which prevailed throughout the
whole country. In the two winter quarters ending in
March, 1869, 97 deaths occurred in the Hamlet from
this disease, whooping-cough was also exceptionally
fatal. But to form a just estimate of the public health
of the Hamlet, we must compare our rate of mortality
to the population living, with the death-rates of the
Metropolis and the whole country.