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being more than one-fourth the total deaths, the next largest mortality
being between one and five years of age, so that nearly half the total
number of deaths occurred during the first quinquennial period. Under
better conditions of food and sanitation a large per centage of these
young lives would have been preserved. Reference to this Table will
show the relative mortality at other periods. It is satisfactory to see
the large number, more than an eighth, over 70 years of age, including
both octogenarians and nonogenarians, a practical testimony to the
salubrity of the Hamlet.
Non-Pauper Small Pox Cases.
The following numbers were admitted into the Asylums Board
Hospitals from the various Metropolitan Districts during the seven
months ending July, 1878.
Stepney 229
Bethnal Green 69
Hackney 246
Mile End Old Town 116
St. George's-in-the-East 82
Poplar 104
Whitechapel 47
Shoreditch 45
City of London 5
Holborn 6
St. Pancras 3
Westminster 1
St. Marylcbone 1
Woolwich 1
West Ham 1
Islington 5
Barking 1
Total 964
Water Supply.
A portion of the following is copied from my last year's Report,
but applies almost literally to present circumstances. The supply to
this Hamlet is entirely from the East London Company. Although the