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It is upon this number that all the calculations in the following
pages are based.
In order to arrive at a correct appreciation of the value of the
foregoing figures, and of those which are to follow, I deem it expedient
to state at this stage of my report, that I estimate the populalation
of the Limehouse District at 60,000 persons. Assuming this
number as correct, we shall find that the birth-rate of the District
during the year was 35 per 1,000 of the population, and that the
death-rate was 25 per 1,000.
The deaths of children under five years constitute 45 per cent,
of the total mortality. In this respect there is an improvement of
the public health ; the deaths in the corresponding section of the
population during the year 1876, being 53 per cent, of the total
mortality, and the average of the seven years, 1869-75, being 50
per cent.
The total number of deaths in Public Institutions which concern
your District was 341.
The deaths from the seven principal Zymotic diseases, were as
follows :—
Smallpox 89
Measles 71
Scarlet Fever 20
Diphtheria 5
Whooping Cough 47
Fever 22
Diarrhoea 66
Total 320