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8 MORTALITY OF THE CITY OF LONDON.
which visits all unhealthy districts disproportionately,
and renders their annual excess of mortality
still more egregious and glaring.
As materials which may aid you to estimate
the sanitary defects of the City, I subjoin two
tables illustrating the relative mortality of the
several sub-districts. The first of these tables
indicates numerically the local distribution of the
year's deaths, and gives their proportion to the
population of each district and sub-district. The
second relates particularly to the last quarter, and
illustrates the pressure of the epidemic. The two
together furnish a synoptical view of the several
rates of mortality, as calculated for the entire City,
for the Unions separately, for the sub-districts
separately, and for the last quarter of the year
separately. In the laborious process of constructing
these tables, I have been careful to avoid every
source of inaccuracy, and believe that they present
you with a true measure of the health of the City
during the past year.
From these comparative tables it will be observed,
that the high mortality of the population
does not affect the entire City equally; that, in
some of its portions, the rate of death approaches
the minimum standard much more nearly than in
others; that in those districts where the general
rate is best, the temporary aggravation from epidemic
causes has likewise been least; and that our