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Cellars used as dwellings discontinued for such use 9
Cases of overcrowding and indecent occupation abated 2
Houses in which rooms or passages have been whitewashed 68
Rooms disinfected with sulphurous-acid gas, after the occurrence
of small-pox, fever, and scarlet fever therein 61
Articles, consisting of beds, bedding, clothing, &c., removed
from rooms to the Stone Yard and disinfected in the apparatus 1083
Articles burnt by consent 23
Yards of houses paved or the pavement repaired 48
Drains in houses improved 32
Dust-bins provided 7
Privies lime-washed, cleansed, and repaired 89
Water-supply provided or improved 20
Nuisances from dung and other offensive matter removed 28
Area-gratings, cellar-flaps, &c., repaired 4
Twenty-six baskets and barrels of pears were removed from Iron
Gate Wharf and destroyed, the same being unfit for human food.
ANNUAL REPORT.
The number of births registered in this District daring the year has
been 2472, and the deaths 2253, including those of non-residents in the
London Hospital (529). In the preceding year the births were 2545, and
the deaths 2345, including the deaths of 544 non-residents.
The deaths in the Workhouse have been 322, against 365 for the
previous year; and the deaths in the London Hospital 783 against 762.
The population of the District, at the taking of the last census, and
published weekly in the Returns of the Registrar-General, was 71,363.
The inhabited houses are 7,594. In 1871 the population was 76,573,
and the inhabited houses 8,264.
The deaths (excluding 529 of non-residents) being 1,724, the rate of
mortality has been, during the year, 24.1 per 1,000. The rate of mortality
during the preceding year was 25.2 per 1,000.