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to the
BOARD OF WORKS
LIMEHOUSE DISTRICT.
health and sanitary condition of the Limehouse District during the
year 1878.
Like its immediate predecessor, 1878 will be remembered as
having been a year in which Small Pox was prevalent in the
Metropolis to such an extent as to constitute an epidemic, yet it was
not an unhealthy year, as the following figures will prove:—In the
period under consideration there were registered in the District
1,326 deaths—these include 97 deaths of non-residents which
occurred in the East London Hospital for Children. Deducting
these deaths of non-residents, we get, as a result, 1,229 as representing
the number of deaths of residents in your District. To this
number we must Add, however, our proportion of deaths in the
Public Institutions of London. This year that number is 255,
which, added to 1,229, gives a total of 1,484 deaths as the
for the
Gentlemen,
I have the honour to submit to you my Keport on the