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mind that the Hoxton New Town Sub-district, includes St. Luke's Workhouse; a
deduction of 12 must be made from fever-deaths on this occount. No deaths from
any of the other five zymotic diseases took place in this Workhouse. The Haggerstone
West Sub-district containing Shoreditch Workhouse, in which is situated the fever
hospital, includes some deaths that ought to be distributed amongst the Sub-districts
where fatal sickness was contracted.
It is shown in the last quarterly summary of the Registrar-general, that the
fever mortality was greatest in the Eastern division of the metropolis, of which Shoreditch
forms a part. I have therefore constructed Table III, for the purpose of showing
not only what proportion the Shoreditch mortality from each zymotic disease bore to
that of all London, but also to that of the Eastern division. It need not be said that
the Eastern division is composed to a greater extent than any other of the great metropolitan
divisions, of those classes which have always furnished the greatest contingent
to the mortality lists. The Eastern division, it is well known, bears not only the
weight of its own pauperism, but also an enormous proportion of that pauperism
which on every principle of justice, it belongs to other districts to support. The
concentration of the poorer classes of the London community in the East, seems to be
constantly increasing ; depreciating property, crushing industry, burdening the ratepayers,
and perpetuating the diseases which spring from immorality, destitution, and
over crowding.
It is no matter for surprise, if, under these circumstances, the fever mortality
of the Eastern division is greater than that of the aristocratic districts of the West,
whose comparative healthfulness is maintained at our expense.
The population of Shoreditch may be estimated to be .22, or somewhat less
than one-fourth that of the Eastern division of the metropolis. The mortalitv should
of course bear the same proportion. Table III shows that from small-pox we have
suffered very little, only one death having occurred from this cause in the parish ; and
Mr. Ross, the relieving officer, informs me that no case of small pox has been sent to
the Small Pox Hospital during the quarter. From measles, our loss was less than the
London average, and more than that of the Eastern division. From scarlatina we
lost rather more than the London average, and less than the Eastern average. From
hooping cough our relative loss was in excess; from diarrhoea, in deficiency compared
with both all London, and with the East. From typhus, our loss was much in excess
relatively to all London, and about the same as in the Eastern division.