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The Mortality in the Workhouse and other Institutions.- The Workhouse 14
The Bloomsliiiry Dispensary 15
The British Lying-in Hospital 15
The Infants' Home 15
The Sanitary Work of tiie Year 15
The Disinfecting Chamber 17
The Mortuary 17
Rag and Bone Shops 17
Cow-sheds, Slaughter-houses, Bake-houses, 17
Condemned Houses 18
Sewers, and their Ventilation 19
Bad Food 19
Appendix.
Tables of Births and Deaths ; of Quarterly Death-rate from all causes in St. Qiles ;
and of Annual Mortality at all ages.
To the Board of Works foe the St. Giles District.
Gentlemen,
Tiie Census.
1. Since my last Annual Report the Decennial Census of the United
Kingdom has been taken, and a preliminary report has been published by the
Registrar General. Comment on the importance of this census is superfluous.
To the sanitary statist it is indispensable. It provides him with the facts
indicating the salubrity of towns, as influenced by the births, deaths, house
accommodation, acreage, and the density of the population, which are alone
expressly giyen, yet these being the results of certain social conditions, reflect
a light upon the operation of the more complex causes, such as the introduction
of new departments of labour, the decay of local industries, and the
general sanitary police of the several districts.
The Rate of Increase in the Metropolis.
2. The following data enable us to form an estimate of the condition of
our own district. The population of London within the Registration
Division was, in 1861, 2,803,989, and in 1871, 3,254,260, having increased
annually at the rate of 1.49 per cent. There is, however, between the
Registration Division and the Metropolitan Police Division outside of it, a
ring containing an additional population of 631,288 persons, in which the
increase annually has been at the extraordinary rate of 4.19 per cent.
The Rate of Decrease in St. Giles District.
3. The diminished rate of increase in the more settled parts of the
metropolis, implies a stationary if not a declining condition of the numbers
of the population in the older central districts. This we find to be the case;
and in our own district, in particular, there has been an actual reduction of
numbers to the extent of 647 persons in the ten years, or a decreasing rate
of 0.12 per cent, per annum.
4. This fact of the decrease of the population in the whole district is
consistent, however, with an increased density of the population in certain
portions of it, as the following tabic shows:—