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report having been made, the Board shall have power to prevent the use of
all such improper materials.
4.—That the Avails and foundation of every house shall be so constructed
as to prevent the rise of damp.
5.—That every new house shall at all times have at the rear an open
space of sufficient extent for the thorough ventilation of the staircases and
passages. That no house shall be permitted to be occupied unless the person
letting such house shall have a certificate, signed by the Surveyor and
Medical Officer of Health to the Local Board, that all the rooms therein are
of sufficient size and fit for healthy occupation.
ANNUAL REPORT.
The number of births registered in this District during the year, has
been 2688, and the deaths 2613, including those of non-residents in the
London Hospital (377). In the preceding year (consisting of 53 weeks) the
births were 2727, and the deaths 2471, including the deaths of 393 nonresidents.
The deaths in the "Workhouse have been 354, against 340 for the previous
year; and the deaths in the London Hospital 675, against 645.
The population of the District at the taking of the census was 76,573
which is 2397 less than when the census was taken in 1861.
The deaths being (excluding 377 of non-residents) 2236, the rate of
mortality has been during the year 29.2 per 1000, or 1 in 34.2 of all living.
The rate of mortality during the last year was 26.5 per 1000.
In making a comparison, however, of the rate of mortality of this District
with that of others, the total deaths in the London Hospital must be
eliminated, which this year, as above stated, amount to 675. This gives a
rate of mortality of 25.3 per 1000. In the year 1872 the rate of mortality
was 26.3 per 1000; but on deducting the total deaths in the London Hospital
from the total deaths in the District, the rate of mortality was only
23.1 per 1000.
Principal Causes of Death.
Of the total deaths during the year, there were 384 from epidemic
diseases, viz., 1 from small-pox, 33 from measles, 201 from scarlet fever and
diphtheria, 16 from hooping-cough, 76 from diarrhoea, 54 from fever, and 3
from choleraic diarahœa. During the last two years only 2 deaths from
small-pox have occurred in this District, viz., 1 in 1873, and 1 in 1874, and
none occurred in the "Metropolitan Asylums" of any patient resident in
this District.