Therefore, as other topics[76] of importance to the health of the City press for more immediate consideration, I refrain from occupying your time by any further remark on the materials which I subjoin.
[76] We were at this time closely occupied in considering the general questions of extramural interment for the City.—J. S., 1854.
I have the honour,
&c., &c.
FIFTH ANNUAL REPORT.
November 29th, 1853.
Gentlemen,
According to the practice of previous years, I lay before you, in the annexed [tables], a brief digest of your death-register for the fifty-two weeks which terminated at Michaelmas last.
The deaths there enumerated amount to 3040—being 24 fewer than in the last preceding similar period.
Beyond these statistics of the past year, there are other facts which I have thought it well to tabulate for your information. They relate to the entire term of five years, during which I have kept record of your mortality. Midway in this quinquennial period—namely, in the spring of 1851, the general census happened to occur. The inhabitants of the City, then enumerated, may fairly be taken to represent the mean of your somewhat fluctuating population; and the five years’ mortality, compared with the numbers of this mean population, will express pretty accurately their habitual death-rate.