In classifying for your consideration the deaths which, during the last two years, have depended on epidemic, endemic, and infectious diseases, I have thought it desirable to distribute them according to the municipal divisions of the City. Strongly believing, as I have endeavoured to express, that this class of deaths is for the main part preventable, I have thought it would interest the representatives of the several Wards, and would more directly enlist their sympathies for sanitary progress, if I could enable them at a glance to recognise the ratio in which their respective constituencies contribute to this annual death-roll. I have included in the table, under eight different heads, all those acute diseases which depend in an important degree on local causation, either for their existence or for their fatality. It will be obvious, even to the unprofessional reader, that local causes are not of equal prevalence in respect of all the diseases there tabulated. Some (as fever and cholera) would not be known at all under perfect sanitary arrangements; others (as scarlatina, measles, and hooping-cough) would be far less malignant in their attacks; others (as those classified in the tenth and twelfth columns) would no doubt exist under the most perfect physical circumstances, but would probably prevail in numbers quite inconsiderable as compared with those actually observed. On consulting this table[39], it will be observed that in _Cordwainers_’ Ward, during the last year, not a single death occurred from the causes referred to, and in the preceding year of epidemic visitation, only five; that in _Cornhill_ Ward there have been only two such deaths in each of these years; that in _Coleman-street_ they have been 66; in _Queenhithe_, 59; in _Portsoken_, 143; in _Aldersgate Within_, 30; in _Aldersgate Without_, 179; in _Cripplegate Within_, 80; in _Cripplegate Without_, 299; in _Bishopsgate Within_, 60; in _Bishopsgate Without_, 329; in _Farringdon Within_, 153; in _Farringdon Without_, 845. [39] Page 167.