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REPORT.
To the Board of Works for the Hackney District.
Gentlemen,
I propose in this report to lay before you not only
the sanitary state of the District during 1872, and the work
carried on by myself and staff, but also to tabulate the births
and deaths for some years past, and to discuss some of the
tables and data set out in the two volumes of the Census lately
published by the Registrar General's department.
The mortality during the year has been unusually small,
although there were a very large number of deaths from smallpox,
and, as I foretold last year, a comparatively large number
from measles. This has arisen partly in consequeuce of the
mortality from scarlet fever having been the smallest which has
been registered since the framing of the "Metropolis Local
Management Act," due allowance being made for increase of
population. I stated in my last report that I expected a very
small mortality from scarlet fever in 1872 and 1873, and so far
my expectations have been verified. The total number of
deaths registered in this district during 1872, exclusive of 303
non-residents who died in the small-pox and fever hospitals at
Homerton, was 2,487, which, allowing the number of inhabitants