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sickness only increased one-twenty-eighth. The number of new cases of disease
entered last year amounted to 29,011, and in 1861 the number was 28,000.
DISTRICT MORTALITY.
5. I must here beg of you to refer to the Sanitary Map furnished with my last
Annual Report. In the 35 districts, the death rate, calculated upon the census
papers of 1861, varied from 7.3 in the 1,000 inhabitants in Duncan District to 28.6
per 1000 in Ballspond District. From this it appears that, both in the most healthy
and the least healthy district, the death rate was lower than in the most healthy
and least healthy in 1861, when the extremes were 8.5 and 33.5 deaths per 1000,
respectively. Nine districts presented a death rate below 15 per 1000 (the standard
death rate for a healthy district [Farr]), namely, Duncan, Highbury Hill, Palmer,
Hornsey Rise, Rydon, Tufnell, St. Peter's, Park Street, and City Road, a list which
includes at least two districts where the population consists in large proportion of
poor persons. Thirteen presented a death rate above the mean death rate of the
Parish : I place them in order from the lowest to tho highest death-rate. [Shepherdess],
Trinity, Canal, Lower Holloway, [Hornsey-road], Lower Road, Bermerton,
Queen's Road, Church, [Mildmay], Battle Bridge, Irish Courts, and Balls Pond.
The calculation for those districts placed in brackets, however, is more or less
incorrect, inasmuch as since the Census they have, by the occupation of a large
number of new houses, increased more or less in population; the districts of Hornsey
Road and Mildmay are most remarkable in this respect. It is worthy of observation
that the district of Ballspond again exhibits the highest death rate, just as it did in
1861; the deaths of young children were the most numerous by far, the Zymotic
mortality very heavy, and while scarlet fever swept off the infant population in 1861,
measles performed a similar office last year, especially in Feston Place, Frederick
Place, Albion Place, Orchard Street, and Prospect Place. Table II. represents tho
actual mortality in each district, and Table III. the death rate in each, as calculated
upon the census papers of 1861,
INFANT MORTALITY.
6. I have already alluded to this subject when discussing the general death rate for
the year. The Tables II. and III. will show how the deaths under 5 years were
distributed among the several districts. The highest infant mortality appears to
have occurred in the Irish Courts, viz., 18.2 per 1000 of the population at all ages,
while the lowest occurred in Dunean District adjoining, viz., 1.2 per 1000 of
population. As respects the value of these death rates I must refer you to the
remarks I made upon the subject in my last Annual Report,
CAUSES OF DEATH.
7. Table I. shows the cause of death in 3,010 persons of all ages.
a Zymotic Diseases.
The diseases of the Zymotic class were fatal to 849 persons, nearly the samo
number as in 1861. Of these 572 were infants under 5 years of age. The District