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* Correction has been made for the extra length of the registration year 1857.
The progressive rise in the mortality of Bloomsbury is only to a small extent
accounted for by the increase of its population. The death-rate of St. Giles'
South is slightly below the average of the preceding five years, while that of
St. Giles' North is (like Bloomsbury) in excess of its usual amount.
Here for convenience of reference it is well to show the Births in the
same sub-districts, in so far as they have been registered each year.

B. Reverting, for the more detailed conditions of the localization of
disease in St. Giles', to the Ten Localities into which it has been customary
in these reports to divide the district, we find that the gross mortality has
been distributed in the manner shown by the table on the top of the next page.
Here it may be observed that while most of the localities have contributed
to the rise in mortality in 1862, those about Church Lane and Short's
Gardens are especially above their numbers of the preceding year, and both
now occupy a position even below the neighbourhood of Dudley Street.
The order of salubrity of the different localities, on the test of the death-rate,
remains much as in former years. About one of the localities, however, special
mention must be made. The angle of the parish of Bloomsbury about Coram
Street, consisting of the parts to the East of Woburn-place, has habitually
a much higher mortality than the rest of the parish. This would be no
matter for surprise when we remember that the poorest people live in the