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MORTALITY OF THE CITY OF LONDON. 5
Therefore, Gentlemen, I venture to assure myself,
that, I shall but have anticipated the wishes
of this Honourable Court, in preparing for your
consideration a statement of those circumstances,
which apparently conspire to determine the larger
mortality of the City of London.
In order to prevent any misapprehension of my
remarks, I think it well to observe that, in commenting
on this mortality, I purposely avoid instituting
any comparison between it and the mortality
of those urban districts which immediately adjoin
us : for the object of my comparison is not to illustrate
how, by similar or worse circumstances, an
equally great mortality may have been procured
elsewhere; but rather to suggest how, by other
and better sanitary arrangements here, our present
high mortality may be diminished.
Also, while I speak of the causes of that high
mortality which distinguishes the City of London
from the healthier sub-districts I have cited, it will
be obvious that many of my observations do not
apply to the City of London exclusively, but admit
of equal application to various other central districts
of the metropolis;—relating, in fact, generally
to the characteristic evils of all urban
residences.
With those other districts I have nothing to do;
but I wish it to be understood, that in describing
the City as healthy or unhealthy, I am not com