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to the
LIMEHOUSE BOARD OF WORKS.
Gentlemen,
A memorable year has been 1866 for an excessive mortality.
This is wholly attributable to the outbreak of Cholera, principally in the
months of July, August, and September; and which told with terrible effect
in the Limehouse District. I have already made a special report on the
epidemic. I shall supplement it by some further remarks in their place, in
the meantime confining myself to the sanitary history of the twelve months.
Premising that I am unable to give the number of births with precision,
as the returns during the Cholera season were withhold, and on application
since, I am informed that thoy are "now out of print."
The deaths for the year ending Lady-day, 1367, were 1,833—920
males and 913 females. The mortality for the same period in 1866 was
1,217, so that where 2 died in 1865-6, 3 perished in 1866-7.
This large mortality will be thus apportioned:—
Tot. Deaths.
Males.
Females.
Limehouse
874
437
437
Ratcliff
544
274
270
Shadwell
262
134
128
Wapping
153
75
78
1,833
920
913