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MORTALITY OF THE CITY OF LONDON.
only five; that in Cornhill Ward there have been
only two such deaths in each of these years; that
in Coleman-street they have been 66 ; in Queenhithe,
59; in Portsoken, 143; in Aldersgate Within, 30;
in Aldersgate Without, 179; in Cripplegate Within,
80; in Cripplegate Without, 299; in Bishopsgate
Within, 60; in Bishopsgate Without, 329 ; in Farringdon
Within, 153; in Farringdon Without, 845.
I am unable to state with accuracy, in these several
instances, what proportion subsists between the
preventable mortality and the number of living persons,
for I have no means of ascertaining precisely
the population of the separate wards; and without
this knowledge it is impossible to arrange them
in a scale of comparative healthiness. I need hardly
remind your Honourable Court that the wards differ
very considerably in their magnitude; so that the
largest majority of cases occurring in one ward (as
in Farringdon Without) must not unconditionally be
taken to imply that the ward, in proportion to its population,
suffers more deaths than one in which the
apparent number is less considerable. In the table
to which these remarks refer, I have endeavoured
to give you the means of comparing (at least approximatively)
the healthiness of your several departments,
by entering against the name of each
ward the number of holdings for which it stands
assessed to your rate. This entry (with some trifling
modifications specified in the table) may be
taken to express the number of houses contained in
c