REPORTS
RELATING TO
THE SANITARY CONDITION
OF THE
CITY OF LONDON.
FIRST ANNUAL REPORT.
TO THE HON. THE COMMISSIONERS OF SEWERS OF THE CITY OF LONDON.
November 6th, 1849.
Gentlemen,
During the 52 weeks dating from October 1st, 1848, to September 29th, 1849, there died of the population of the City of London 3763 persons.
The rate of mortality, estimated from these data for a population of 125,500, would be about the proportion of 30 deaths to every thousand living persons.[13]
[13] The Census of 1851, compared with that of 1841, would lead me to believe that in 1848-9 the population of the City must have been about 129,000. With this correction, the death-rate would have been about 29·16 per thousand.—J. S., 1854.
The lowest suburban mortality recorded in the fifth volume of the Registrar-General’s Reports, for the year then under estimation, gave a rate of 11 in the thousand; and we might perhaps be justified in adopting that rate as a minimum for the purpose of sanitary comparison.