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drawn thither by the Workhouse, and the large number of common
lodging-houses in the Sub-District.
The Death-rate among Persons at all Ages.
19. There were 684 Deaths at all ages (exclusive of infants and
persons 60 years of age and upwards) in the District during the year
1873. Of these, 160 occurred in St. George, Bloomsbury; 303 in
St. Giles South; and 179 in St. Giles North. There were 42
Deaths in the Workhouse that could not be allocated to the several
Sub-Districts. These 684 Deaths (nearly the exact number of last
year, viz. 683,) are equivalent to 1 death in every 78.1 of our population.
Thus there has been a similar saving of human life to that of
last year, which I then computed at 28 per cent, of the Deaths at
those ages,—the most active and useful periods of life.
20. The following table exhibits the proportion of Deaths from
8ome of the more important Diseases in the three Sub-Districts. It
will be observed that much more than half of the Deaths from Bronchitis
and Pneumonia occurred in St. Giles South, and nearly half
of the Deaths from Phthisis. Nearly half of the Deaths also from
Diseases of the Heart and Tabes, and just half of the Deaths from
Premature Birth and from Cancer, occurred in the same Sub-District.

Death-rate among the Zymotic Diseases.
21. We have already noticed that our mortality among persons
at all ages was within one, last year, of that recorded in the previous
year, and we now find that the mortality from Zymotic Diseases in