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The inhabited houses are 7,594. In 1871 the population was
76,520, and the inhabited houses 8,264.
The deaths (excluding 446 of non-residents) being 1905, the rate
of mortality has been, during the year, 26.6 per 1000. The rate of
mortality during the preceding year was 24.3 per 1000.
In making a comparison, however, of the rate of mortality of this
District with that of others in which there is no hospital, the total
deaths in the London Hospital must be eliminated, which, this year,
as before stated, amount to 654. This gives a mortality of 23.7 per
1000. The annual rate of mortality since the year 1866, which was
the year when cholera was epidemic, may be seen on referring to
Table No. 5 in the Appendix.
Deaths from Epidemic Diseases.
Of the total deaths recorded in this District during the year, there
were 307 from epidemic diseases, viz., 14 from small-pox, to which
must be added the 33 which occurred in the Small-pox Hospital, thus
making a total of 47; 88 from measles, 26 from scarlet-fever, 9 from
diphtheria, 48 from hooping-cough, 91 from diarrhoea, and 31 from
fever, to which must be added the 5 deaths which occurred in the
Fever Hospital, thus making a total of 36.
The deaths from fever, including those which occurred in the
Fever Hospital, have been 36. In the whole of London, the deaths
from fever have been 1195.
The death-rate from epidemic diseases, including those in
hospitals, for the year, in relation to the total mortality, is 14.5 per
cent.
Small-pox in London.
In the fifty-two weeks ended December 31st, the deaths in
London from small-pox were 2371, which is equal to 621 per million
of the population.
Pauper Illness in the District.
The number of out-door sick paupers who have been attended by
the Medical Officers of the Union is 4229. Duiing the previous year
the number was 3660. The extraordinary annual diminution in the
number of the out-door sick paupers, from upwards of 17,000, in the
years 1867 and 1868, to 2060 in 1877, is a matter of great satisfaction
to the ratepayers of this District.