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14 per thousand per annum; which your worst
sub-district mortality more than doubles.
As different districts contribute unequally to
your average death-rate, so also do different ages.
Among all the population exceeding five years of
age, the death-rate is under 17 per thousand per
annum; while for children under five years of age
the rate is nearly 85. And these rates are unequally
constituted by your three chief districts in the
following proportion; viz.—
Annual Rate of Deaths to 1000
living persons.
Over 5 Years
of age.
Under 5 Years
of age.
East London Union 16.68 91.99
West London Union 20.58 94.84
City of London Union 15.06 71.72
Average death-rate in the City 16.85 84.72
How various are the diseases which have conspired
to produce your annual average of 3120
deaths, it would be tedious to describe; and in the
table which I have devoted to a partial analysis of
this subject, I have restricted myself to a consideration
of those ailments which are likely to become
less fatal under a well-developed sanitary system.
To the annual average typhus has contributed 140
deaths; choleraic affections (including the epidemic
of 1849) 196; scarlet fever, 76; small-pox, 40;
erysipelas, 30; the acute nervous and mucous diseases
of children, 572; their measles, hooping-