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lation, hence the comparison is scarcely unfavourable.
The annual rate of mortality was 21.65 per 1000 population
living. In the two registration divisons of the
Hamlet the death rate was 21 in the Western and 22.5 in
the Eastern per 1000 of the population. The former
having a total of 821 and the latter of 1344 deaths.
Zymotic Mortality.
The total number of deaths certified or registered as
from infectious or preventible diseases was 422, including
105 from diarrhoea. Of these 159 occurred in the
Western and 265 in the Eastern Registration Division.
The annual rate per 1000 population was 4.0 in the
Western and 4.34 in the Eastern Division. If the 105
deaths from diarrhoea be deducted, there would remain
317 deaths from the sixprincipal infectious diseases, viz.,
small pox, measles, scarlet fever, diphtheria, whooping
cough, fever, giving a death rate of 3.17, or including
diarrhoea of 4.2 per 1000; the corresponding rate for
the whole metropolis was 3.25, and for eighteen large
towns 4.47 per 1000 population. Of the 62 deaths
from fever 19 occurred in the Western and 43 in the
Eastern divisions of the Hamlet, giving a rate per 1000
of 0.487 or nearly a person to the former, and 0.705
or nearly ¾ of a person to the latter division. Eleven
deaths were registered as from cholera and choleraic
diarrhoea during the autumn quarter of 1874.
The area of the Hamlet in statute acres is 679, of
these 189 comprise the Western and 490 the Eastern
Registration Division ; the population per acre in each
is 206.3 in the Western and 124.5 in the Eastern ; an
equal distribution over the whole area of the Hamlet
would give 147.3 persons to an acre. In the whole area
of the metropolis there are 45.7 persons to an acre, this
is of course inclusive of large open spaces, parks, &c., of
which We have none in this Hamlet. In addition to the
interest of these facts my principal object is to elucidate