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have to contend against during the growth of this great locality.
Like the human species during the active period of growth,
numerous must be the dangers to be guarded against and detects
to be remedied—the natural result of growth; for it is obvious
that a system that might work well, or a trade, such as pig
keeping, that might not be a serious nuisance with a population
of 50,000 inhabitants, might totally fail, or be an intolerable
nuisance, when there was 100,000 inhabitants residing in the
same locality. It is this difference, that it is hard to get the
public to understand. It is immediately said that more strict
sanitary supervision is the result of excessive zeal on the part
of some officer; but it is not perceived that the circumstances
of the case are altered, and although a course adopted 10 or 15
years ago might have been all that was necessary then for the
preservation of public health, nevertheless the same course
might be totally inadequate in the present day.
mortality and death rate.
The number of deaths registered in this district last year,
was 2346 (males, 1176 and females, 1170) being one death to
42.6 of the population against 1765 in the previous year, which
equalled one death to 56.7. The average number of deaths registered
during the last five years was 1926. This mortality
includes all deaths registered in the district, If, however, we
deduct the deaths of non-parishioners, that took place in the
Fulham Small Pox Hospital, allowing the deaths of non-parishioners
in the West London Hospital, and other Public Institutions
to go for compensative allowance for the unknown deaths
of parishioners which may have taken place in general Hospitals
outside the district, the corrected mortality for last year would
be 2261, The gross death rate therefore taking the deaths as
registered (2346), was 23.46 per thousand persons living, being
slightly less than the death rate of the whole metropolis, which
was 23'5. The corrected mortality rate was 22.6, being, .9 less
than the whole metropolis. Of the deaths registered in this
district last year 138 took place in St. Peter's, 1161 in St. Paul's
and 1047 in Fulham. The average number of deaths in the
three sub-districts during the last five years was, St. Peters,
131, St. Pauls, 980, and Fulham, 815. There was, therefore, as
compared with the average mortality during the last five years
an increase of seven deaths in St. Peter's, 181 in St. Paul's, and
231 in Fulham, but if we deduct the 85 deaths of non-parishioners
which took place in the Fulham Small Pox Hospital there