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Of 24 fatal cases of measles 18 were in the Canal District;
Of 39 ditto hooping cough 26 ditto ditto
Of 36 ditto infantile pneumonia & other
diseases of the chest 25 ditto ditto
Of 34 ditto infantile diarrhœa 15 ditto ditto
So that in every 100 houses situated within 200 yards of the
Canal there occurred, during the last summer months, at least
four limes as many deaths among children under five, as in
the same number of houses in the rest of the. Parish. *
In order to compare in a still more accurate manner the
sanitary condition of the population in the neighbourhood
of the Canal with that of the rest of the Parish, I have
estimated the rate of mortality of 13 of the principal streets
in the District in question. To arrive at this result, which is
exhibited in the following Table, it has been necessary to
institute a Census of the population of each of these streets,
in respect of which my wishes have been carried out with
much care and diligence by your Inspector.
TABLE exhibiting the sanitary condition and mortality of
the inhabitants of the following 13 Streets and Places situate
in the neighbourhood of the Grand Junction Canal, viz:—
Dudley, Brindley, Hampden, Green, Albert, Victoria and
Hermitage Streets; Alfred and Waverley and North Wharf
Roads; Church, Kent's and Welling's Places.
Number of
Population
Number of
Inhabitants
in each
House.
N umber of
Inhabitants
in each
Tenement.
Total Mortality
per Cent.
Houses;
Tenements
470
1274
4750
10.1
2.71
2.84
of which
under 5y.
1.73
above 5y.
1.11
*It is to be remembered that the Inhabitants of the Canal District are, on
the whole, less favourably situated, as regards their general sanitary condition,
than the rest of the population. This difference is however quite out of relation
with the enormous disparity in the mortality.