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your population 3,400 persons, representing the
high death-rate of about 25½ per 1,000.
During the last six months (including the critical
heats of summer) the City has been healthier than
its average, and the mean weekly number of deaths
has been under 59; but throughout the previous
half-year, we had been participating in the general
effects of a very unhealthy season, and had been
suffering a mean weekly loss of 72 persons. Those
unhealthy months, preceding and following last
Christmas, included, first, a period* in which the
epidemic influence of Cholera had scarcely left
the Metropolis, and afterwards a winter of very
unusual severity.
It will be satisfactory to you to know, that under
these unfavorable circumstances, the inmates of the
City, with all their disadvantages of crowding,
suffered less than other urban populations; and
especially during the three months of winter, while
(according to the Registrar-General's quarterly
return) the average death-rate of town-districts in
England was 80 per 10,000, that of the City of
London was but 71|.
*The more important sanitary facts of this period formed
the subject of a separate Report, dated December 19th, on the
"Cholera-Epidemic of 1854, as it prevailed in the City of
London."