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and St. Paul's together, 66,000 inhabitants. On the 31st of
December last there were 16,063 inhabited houses in the district
against 15,257 in the previous year. There were 10,910 in the
parish of Hammersmith, and 5153 in the parish of Fulham,
against 10,300 in the parish of Hammersmith, and 4957 in the
parish of Fulham in the previous year. There was, therefore,
an increase of 806 inhabited houses in the whole district during
the year, of which there were 610 in the parish of Hammersmith
and 196 in the parish of Fulham. On the estimated population
there was in the whole district 6.6 persons to each house.
During the past year some hundreds of new houses have been
constructed, many of which are only recently let, and some not
yet occupied. Large tracts of land that were the previous year
open fields, are now thickly covered with houses, and some of
this property is of a superior description. With a district
increasing at such a rapid rate we must expect a corresponding
increase in the work, as daily there is required augmented
supervision with the increase of population. Much good was
done last year by abolishing numerous public nuisances, through
which a permanent benefit has been conferred upon the district.
The fruits of that labour will be received for years to come.
Still, however, we have before us in the present year a large
undertaking against other public nuisances, There are difficulties
to be overcome. But encouraged by the success of last year we
maj' fairly hope for a like favourable result during the present.
The number of deaths registered in this district last year was
2259, males 1156, and females 1103, being one death to every
47.8 of the population, against 2346 in the previous year, which
equalled one death to 42.6. The average number of deaths
registered during the last five years was 2137. This mortality
includes all deaths registered in the district. If however, we
deduct the 81 deaths of non-parishioners that took place in the
Fulham small-pox hospital, allowing the deaths of nonparishioners
in the West London Hospital and other public
institutions to go as compensation for the unknown deaths of
parishioners which may have taken place in general hospitals
and other public institutions outside the district, the corrected
mortality for the last year was 2178. The gross annual deathrate,
therefore, taking the deaths as registered (2259) was 21.1
per thousand persons living, being 2.2 less than the death-rate
of all London, which was 23.3. The corrected mortality rate
for the district was 20.4, being 3.2 less than that of all London.
Of the deaths registered in this district last year, 125 took place
in St. Peters, 1076 in St. Paul's, and 1058 in Fulham, against
138 in St. Peter's, 1161 in St. Paul's, and 1047 in Fulham the
previous year. The average number of deaths registered in the
three sub-districts during the last five years was—St. Peter's,