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Annual Eeport) yield rates over 20 per 1,000; Sub-district 5 being
the highest.

Deaths in common lodging houses and the military hospitals are not included, and
these premises are excluded from column number 2. The numbers in that column placed
in brackets include large blocks of model dwellings.
District No. 3.—This includes parts of Wood Street, Smith Square,
Church Street, Horseferry Eoad, Carpenter Street, Marsham Street,
Tufton Street, Eomney Street, with 10 courts. Census population,
2,841, but after deduction for common lodging houses, the mortality
rates are estimated on a population of 2,750. The high death-rates
from all selected causes arrests attention, the district being only second
to No. 5 in this respect. There are a few small shops, but the inhabitants
of the district generally are of the poorest class. The whole of
the property within the area is old, and generally in poor condition.
Much, though at present habitable, will in a few years become worn-out.
As yet there have been practically no houses pulled down, and the high
death-rate continues almost unabated, having been 23.5 in 1904 against
24.2 in 1901.