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The inhabited houses are 7594. In 1871 the population was
76,573, and the inhabited houses 8264.
The deaths (excluding 561 of non-residents) being 1811, the rate
of mortality has been, during the year, 25.3 per 1000. The rate of
mortality during the year ended 3Oth December, 1882, was 25.2
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 805. This gives a mortality of 21.9
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 four
quarters of the year ended 29th September, 1883, there were 252 from
epidemic diseases, viz., 3 from small-pox, including 2 which occurred
in the Small Pox Hospital, 79 from measles, 26 from scarlet fever, 19
from diphtheria, 14 from hooping-cough, 74 from diarrhcea, and
37 from fever, including 5 deaths which occurred in the Fever
Hospital.
The death-rate from epidemic diseases, including those in
hospitals for the year, in relation to the total mortality, is 10'6 per
cent.
Pauper Illness in the District.
The number of out-door sick paupers who have been attended
by the Medical Officers of the Union is 3455. During the year ended
30th December, 1882, the number was 3728. 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.
I am, Gentlemen,
Your obedient Servant,
15, Great Alie Street.
JOHN LIDDLE.