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ing streets, and the workers who are auxiliary to the
scrvice of its famous shops now live in large part in the
suburbs. Its resident population of 25,000 persons is,
therefore, an inadequate exponent of the activity of its
daily life, of the importance of its retail trade, and of the
necessity for active sanitation. An outbreak of small-pox
or of cholera, localized in St. James's, would at once so
damage the trade of the district as to inflict upon its ratepayers
a thousand times the cost which is now incurred by
their preventive sanitary service, and by the prompt removal
of infectious cases to suburban Hospitals as is now done.
During the year 1893 the following numbers of deaths
were registered as having occurred in St. James's:—
First Quarter 103
Second Quarter 98
Third Quarter 77
Fourth Quarter 101
Deaths in St. James's during the four
quarters of the year 1893 379
To these Deaths there have to be added
the deaths in outlying institutions
among persons reported as belonging
to St. James's 136
515
Deduct deaths of persons reported as Non-Parishioners:—
Dying in the Union-House 33
Dying in the Throat Hospital 6
Dying elsewhere 6
— 45
Net Mortality of St. James's for the year 1893 470