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the fact that the density of the population is greatly on the increase
it is satisfactory to notice that the infantile mortality is not
increased thereby. It will, however, behove your Board to adopt
most stringent regulations as time advances, in order to counteract
the evil though natural effects of increased density of population.
At present there is no cause for alarm on that account, for on the
estimated population there are only 25.4 persons to an acre, while
there is an average of 4S to the whole of London. Still so large
a proportion of this district is as yet almost totally uncovered that
the inhabited portions are somewhat thickly populated.
TABLE I.
The deaths registered in the Fulham District, the mean temperature,
&c., in each of the 11 years.—1869.—1879.
Tear.
Mean
Temperature.
Number of
Deaths.
Number
of
persons to an
Acre.
Population
Proportion
of deaths to
1000 persons
living.
Proportion
of persons
Living to
each Death.
1869
DEG.
49.5
1397
l870
48.7
1579
1771
48.7
1446
l6
.66041
21.8
45.6
1872
50.7
1405
1873
48.9
1479
187.t
49.4
l660
1875
49.4
1875
1676
50.1
I964
1877
497
1765
23.4
96000
19.4
567
1878
49.6
2346
237
100000
23.4
42.6
1879
46.2
2295
25.4
107000
21 .4
47.3
*Census Taken
The annual average mortality during the last three years was
21.3 per thousand persons living, being one death to 48.8 persons,
as compared with a death rate of 21.8, or one death to 45 persons
living in 1871, when the last Census was taken. When we consider
that the density of the population has increased from 16
persons per acre to 25.4, this diminution in mortality is satisfactory,
and ivs a procf that the numerous sanitary improvements that your
Board have adopted are productive of good results.