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MORTALITY OF THE CITY OF LONDON.
several districts and sub-districts of the City. For
the foot of each column, I have calculated the
year's death's rate, per thousand of the living, in
the district or sub-district referred to ; and at the
head of the columns, for facility of reference, I
have introduced an analysis of the population,
founded on the Registrar-General's recent census.
In the second table all the deaths of the last
four years are stated, in a form which will enable
you to compare one year with another, and one
sub-district with another, in respect of their several
contributions to the total mortality of the period.
In the third table 12,540 deaths* of the last four
years are classified according to the ages at which
they befell. This table is arranged in a manner
to display its results, first for each year separately,
and next for each Union separately ; in order that
you may observe what local or annual differences
have obtained as to the ages of chief mortality.
The fourth table also relates to the last four
years. It restricts itself to those various forms of
acute disease—epidemic, endemic, and infectious,
which occasion, most of all, the predominant mortality
of particular districts or seasons; and which
* In the remaining number (17) the particulars of age and
residence could not be correctly ascertained.