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that Table will be the correct numbers according to the
finally revised forms of the Superintendent Registrar of the
District; the rate of mortality, which I have been unable
to place before you during the previous years of the operations
of your Board, can, therefore, now be correctly ascertained.
In that Table it will be seen that the Death-rate for
the entire Parish of Greenwich is only 17 and a fraction per
1000 of the population.
The Death-rate for the Parish of St. Paul, Deptford, will
be 20 and a fraction, and that of .the Parish of St. Nicholas,
Deptford, will be 20 and a fraction. The Death-rate of the
whole District, excluding Hospitals and the Union House,
will therefore be 18 and a fraction per 1000 of the population.
These figures will bear a very good position when compared
with all the Metropolitan Districts. I could enter much
more fully into the statistics and mortality of the District,
but I consider further details would become tedious, more
particularly when the annexed Tables so fully demonstrate
the condition of the District during the last and preceding
years. I therefore confidently leave them to your perusal.
During the past year upwards of 2000 houses have been
inspected in the District: 163 houses have been drained into
the sewers, 118 in Greenwich, and 45 in the Parish of
St. Paul, Deptford: 62 houses have been drained into cesspools,
14 in Greenwich and 48 in the Parish of St. Paul,
Deptford: 51 closets have been furnished with a water
supply: 505 privies and cesspools have been emptied and
cleansed, 216 in Greenwich and 289 in the Parishes of
St. Paul and St. Nicholas, Deptford: and 129 nuisances of
various descriptions, such as the keeping of pigs, the
accumulations of dung-heaps and other filth, &c. &c., have
been removed, 98 in the Parish of Greenwich and 26 in the
Parishes of St. Paul and St. Nicholas, Deptford.
A great number of nuisances have been removed and abated
which have arisen from the various works of Trade and
Manufacture in the District, but more particularly in the
Parish of St. Paul, Deptford, the owners of many of which
works have been summoned before the Magistrates in