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adults as well as children. That this was the case is shown by (Col. 22) the proportion of
deaths by typhus being twice as great as in the West Sub-district.
13. But the East Sub-district extends over 1899 acres of land; taken altogether it is less
densely populated than the West (Preliminary Report, p. 18), and it embraces localities of
high salubrity.
In order therefore more closely to define the special seats of zymotic mortality, I made a further
and additional distribution of 2069 of the deaths* into smaller districts, taking for convenience the
division into wards. The result of this tabulation appears, in part, in Table 3.† The lowest
zymotic mortality, 18.65 per cent. of all deaths, occurred in No. 5 (Barnsbury), a ward
situated in the West Sub-district, whose entire zymotic mortality was 20.4 per cent. The
highest was noticed in No. 8 (St. Peter's), viz., 26'5 per cent., and No. 3 (Highbury) presented
a close approximation, 26.08. Both these wards are situated in the East Sub-district,
whose general zymotic mortality was 27'0 per cent. The Table 3 enables you to compare
the zymotic mortality of each ward with that of the Parish generally, and of the Subdistrict
in which lies.
14. But even this does not give sufficiently definite information, and I consequently made
a more minute distribution of the deaths to the streets, etc. in which they occurred; and it at once
became clear that the cause of the mortality we are considering lay within very narrow limits;
since in each ward, the number of streets in which a zymotic death occurred at all, formed
but a small portion of all the streets in contained, though this proportion varied in the several
wards. In No. 3, for instance, out of abcut 147 streets, &c., separately named,‡ there were
108 in which not a single zymotic death of any kind took place all the year, and in No. 8, out
of about 161 streets, &c., there were 92 similarly favoured. The number of streets, in fact,
which, in each ward, contributed in excess to the zymotic mortality was really very small.—
In the following list the lower number in the attached fractions represents the total mortality,
the upper that from zymotic diseases. It is to be borne in mind that the average proportion
for the Parish was under ¼th
Ward 1.—Bowman's-place North, 5.
Ward 2.—Albert Square, ¾—Blundell Street, ¾—Burnard Place, 2/3—Hollingswortli
Street, —St. James' Cottages, 2/4—Upper Victoria Road, 3/6—Victoria Place, Queen's Road, 2/2
Ward 3.—Albany Place, Hornsey Road, 2/2—Ann's Place, Balls Pond, 2/3—Aston Buildings,
2/2—Brand Street, 4/8—Hornsey Road, 5/15—Blackstock Lane and King's Road, 4/5—Lowndes
Place, Mildmay Street, 3/8
Ward 4.—Albion Place, ¾—Almina Road, -|—Canal Terrace, 2/5—Catherine Street, 2/4
—Clayton Street, 7/19.—Freeling Street, —Huntington Street, 2/5—Princes Terrace, 2/6—
Stanmore Cottages, 2/2—Thornhill Place, 5/12—Upper Freeling Street, 2/6Upper North
Street, 2/3—William Street North, 5/15
Ward 5.—Barnsbury Row, 2/5—Gainford Street, 2/4—Matilda Street, 2/6—Payne Street,8/19
—Pulteney Street, 3/7—St. James Street, —White Conduit Street,3/5
Ward 6.—Church Passage, 2/3—Cross Street, 5/8—Little Cross Street, 2/4—Sebbon Place, 2/3
Sebbon Street, 2/2
Ward 7.—Albion Place, 3/5—Charles Street, 2/3—New Norfolk Street, 2/3—Shepperton
Street, 2/3
Ward 8.—Arlington Square, 3/6—Britannia Place, 2/2—Blakeney's Buildings, 2/2—City
Gardens, 6/14—Coleman Street, 2/6—Dame Street, 2/5—Elder Walk, 7/12—Frederick's Place,
1 2
Goswell Road, 3/9—Frog Lane, 2/3—Greenman's Lane,2/6—Grosvenor Street, 4/10—Halton
Place, 3/7—King Street Terrace, 2/2—Lower Street 2/6—Popham Street, 4/9—Rose and Crown
Court, 2/3—St. Paul's Street, 3/9—Shepperton Street, 2/6—Sidney Street, 2/4—Smith's Buildings,±
—South Place, 3/6—Ward's Place, 4/10—William Street, 2/6—Windsor Street,
* The whole of the deaths registered in the year, with the exception of those occurring in the Workhouse
and Infant-Poor house, and a very small number which I had a difficulty in thus referring correctly.
† No conclusion can be drawn from the total mortality in the several Wards, on account of the absence of
any enumeration of their population.
‡ According to lists published for Election purposes.