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TO THE CHAIRMAN AND MEMBERS
of
The Vestry of St. James's Westminster.
Revered Sir and Gentlemen,
I have the honour to submit for the year
1877 the following Report upon the Public Health
of the Parish of St. James's, Westminster.
The District of St. James's Parish covers an area
of 164 statute acres, and the mean density of the
population, taking as a basis the enumeration of
187.1, is 205 persons per acre. It will be seen
from the tables appended that the general death
rate has of late years regularly decreased, and that
for the year 1877 the net mortality of the Parish
amounts only to a death rate of 15.4 per
1000.
The mortality from zymotics in the year 1877
was. reduced to 50.
Of Fever cases 55 came under notice during the