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(i) In every new road the main sewer is laid, and the houses
connected with it.
(J) Great attention has been given both by the Inspector
and myself to the Bakehouses and Slaughterhouses, and they are
mostly in a satisfactory condition.
During the year 1898 the number of deaths registered for the
District was 964, excluding 32 who died in the West Ham Union
6 in the Plaistow Infectious Diseases Hospital, and 2 in the London
Hospital, and, calculated on a population of 70,000, this will give
a death rate of 137 per 1,000 for the year.
The number of births registered for the same period was
2,614—viz., 1,338 males and 1,276 females: this gives a birth rate
of 37*3 per 1,000. The following table will show the different
rates of mortality in East Ham for each of the past three years,
with those of England for 1898:—
East Ham. England.
18 96 1897 1898 1898
Death-rate per 1,000 living 13.2 13.7 14.3 17.6
Zymotic Death-rate per 1000 living 2.4 2.6 2.7 2.22
Deaths of Infants.
42.7 per cent, of the total number of deaths from all diseases
were those of children under one year of age, for out of a total of
2614 born, 428 died before reaching the age of one year.