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MORTALITY OF THE CITY OF LONDON.
distribution of our mortality, and explains the preponderance
of a large class of deaths in some special
districts of the City.
In the Tables which accompany this portion of
my Report, I have arranged in a synoptical form,
convenient for reference, the chief facts of our
sanitary statistics to which I have invited your attention.
In the first* you will read a summary of the deaths
as they have occurred, male and female, in the several
districts and sub-districts of the City, during
each quarter of the past year; with a statement at
the foot of each column of the year's death-rate per
thousand of the living in each such district or subdistrict.
To this I have adjoined an analysis (which
of course can be only approximative) of the actual population,
as distributed in these several Registrars'
divisions of the City.
In the second† table are classified, according to
the ages at which they befell, the deaths of the last
two years; first separately, then conjointly; and in
the latter form they are distributed as they occurred,
among the three Unions of the City, so that you may
observe any local differences which obtain as to the
ages of chief mortality.
In the third tablet, for the sake of comparison in
respect both of general and of infant mortality, I
* Appendix No. II. † Appendix No. III.
‡ Appendix No. IV.