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Houses in which rooms or passages have been whitewashed 157
Booms disinfected with sulphurous-acid gas, after the occurrence of
small-pox, fever, and scarlet-fever therein 68
Articles, consisting of beds, bedding, clothing, &c., removed from
rooms to the Stone Yard and disinfected in the Apparatus 1855
Yards of houses paved, or the pavement repaired 64
Drains in houses improved 49
Dust-bins provided 17
Privies lime-washed, cleansed and repaired 87
Water supply provided or improved 16
Nuisances from dung and other offensive matter removed 22
Area gratings, cellar flaps, &c., repaired 8
Animals (swine, horse, rabbits and fowls) kept so as to be a
nuisance, removed 10
Cesspools abolished 0
Mr. Battram reports that he had removed from the wharves, Lower
East Smithfield, and destroyed by consent, the same being unfit for the food
of man, 147 baskets of potatoes, 600 baskets of fruit, and 1 case of
mutton.
ANNUAL REPORT.
The number of births registered in this District during the year has
been 2722, and the deaths 2426, including those of non-residents in the
London Hospital (434). In the preceding year the births were 2658 and
the deaths 2430, including the deaths of 469 non-residents. The increase
in the number of births has, therefore, been 64, and the decrease in the total
number of deaths has been 4.
The deaths in the "Workhouse have been 332, against 350 for the
previous year; and the deaths in the London Hospital 615 against 671.
The population of the District, at the taking of the last census, was
76,573; which is 2397 less than when the census was taken in 1861. For
the reasons stated in my last Quarterly Report, I do not think that the
population in this District is decreasing, as might be inferred by the
demolition of several houses which has lately taken place. The births in
1872 were 2075 when the population was 76,573, while in the current year
they have been 2722.