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serious item in the Death-rate of the District, when it is seen
that out of a total of 2239 Deaths during the year, 928 have
died under the age of 10 years. The subject therefore requires
serious consideration, and more particularly with
reference to your future sanitary operations. On a further
comparison of the past with preceding years, as regards the
period of life at which the deaths have occurred, very little
variation will be observed; and the same remark will apply
to the causes of death, with the exception of deaths arising
from Epidemic Diseases, which will be seen to have varied
considerably during the past five years. The year 1861 has
numbered a much larger proportion of Deaths from Epidemic
influence than any preceding year with the exception of the
year 1859, which also bore a heavy Epidemic Death-rate.
Table No. 7 is so arranged as to show at a glance the
number of Deaths occurring in each Division of the District
during the past year, and at the same time a comparative
statement of the Deaths as they severally occurred in each
Division during the past six years.
In Table No. 8 is shown the Death-rate per 1000 of the
population. In the first column the Death-rate is calculated
for the several Divisions of the District, including Greenwich
Hospital and the Dreadnought Hospital and the Union
House; and in the second column is a similar calculation
exclusive of those Hospitals and the Union House.
Table No. 9 shows the Births that were registered in the
several Parishes of the District during the year, and also a
comparative statement of the Births registered during the
past six years. From this Table it will be seen that there
were 303 more Births registered during the last than in the
previous year, and 392 more than the average of the preceding
five years.
I have so arranged Table No. 10 as to point out the total
number of Births and Deaths in each Parish of the District,
and the excess of Births over the Deaths. From this Table
will be observed the increase of the population of the District
as regards the excess of Births over the Deaths. These
figures do not show the real numbers or increase of the