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TO THE CHAIRMAN AND MEMBERS
or
The Vestry of St, James's, Westminster,
Reverend Sir and Gentlemen,
I have the honour to submit the following
Report upon the Public Health of the Parish of St.
James's, "Westminster, for the year 1880.
It will be remembered that the District of St. James's
Parish covers an area of 164 statute acres, and that the
mean density of the population, taking as a basis the
enumeration of 1871, is 205 persons per acre. For the
year 1880 the net mortality of the Parish has been 589,
amounting to a death rate of 17.6 per 1000—the population
being taken at 33,500.
The mortality from zymotics in the year 1880 has
been 93, and there have been in addition 10 other deaths
among zymotic cases removed from the Parish to extraParochial
Hospitals.
Of Fever, Small Pox, and Diphtheria, 84 cases came
c