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The deaths of children under 5 years of age were 150; which is at the
rate of 43.2 per cent., while the deaths of children under 5 in the entire
district were 43.8. It may be here observed that the area contains a large
number of registered lodging-houses which arc occupied principally by
adults.
The deaths from epidemic diseases in this area were 24, which is 64.8
per 1000 of the total deaths; and the deaths from scrofulous diseases were
137, which gives a death rate from those diseases of 370.2 per 1000 of the
total deaths; and in the entire district the proportion of deaths from epidemic
diseases is as 120.6 per 1000 of the total deaths; and the proportion
of deaths from scrofulous and the allied diseases, including consumption,
was 252.1 per 1000 for the year ending 2nd January, 1874.
The deaths under 5 years are in proportion to the total deaths 43.8 per cent.
Inkhorn Court.
This court which in the year 1874 gave a rate of mortality of only 8.3
per 1000, gives, in the 5 years, an average annual death-rate of 21.6 per 1000.
As this Court is one of the most confined and badly ventilated courts in the
district, with very defective drainage, and the inhabitants subjected to the
constant emanations of two public privies, might reasonably be expected
to have a large rate of mortality. It is described by Dr. Dyte, whose
remarks on this Court and on others in the. area embraced in Scheme
No. 2, arc published in my last report, as always being in a very unwholesome
condition; nevertheless the annual death rate is below that of the entire district.
The death-rate in this Court for 1870 was at the rate of 41.6 per
1000; in 1871 it was 16.6; in 1872 16.6; in 1873 25.0; and in 1874 it was,
as stated above, only 8.3 per 1000. As the people occupying this Court are
very poor and consist almost entirely of foreign Jews, it is probable that
when they are ill tliev are removed to some institution outside the District,
and their deaths arc there registered. This low death-rate may, perhaps, to
some extent, be accounted for by the population being migratory, the same
parties not remaining long in the locality.

The rate of mortality of children under 5 years was 69.3 per cent.