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Deaths.
The total number of deaths for the year endin
March, 1876, was 2077, compared with 21G5 the pre
vious year, showing a decrease of 88. The average
number for three previous years was 2077, or the same
as for the past year. The death-rate was 20.77 per
1000 population living in the Hamlet. The rate for the
whole Metropolis was 23.10.
Owing to the continued absence of the District
Registrar's Returns, I cannot give a complete statistical
and tabular return of the mortality from diseases of all
kinds, nor a comparison of the number of deaths in the
different Wards of the Hamlet. There is much other
information of interest to you as the sanitary authority
which I could supply from these returns. I therefore
feel much satisfaction that you have agreed with the
Districts Registrars to supply mo with such Returns in
future.
Zymotic Diseases.
The death-rate per 1000 population from the seven
principal diseases in the preventable class, including
small pox, scarlet fever, measles, whooping cough,
diphtheria, fever, and diarrhoea, was 4½ in Mile End,
the same in the Metropolis generally, and 4¼ in 18 of
the largest English towns. Although the general
death-rate of the Hamlet was low, it will be seen, upon
reference to the Table, that the deaths from this class
of diseases amounted to nearly one-fifth the total, and if
to those be added the deaths from suppressed infectious
diseases, in which the external symptoms arc not developed,
I have no doubt the number would be equal to more
than one-fourth the total mortality. It certainly appears
a serious indictment against sanitary science and its administrative
authorities that about one-fourth the total