thin population, compared with its extent,
there being, in this parish, only sixty-six
persons to an acre; and the size and character
of its houses, which return an average rental
of £153 a year.

From the fashionable " west end " we have
to travel to a suburban spot for the third place
in rank on the health-scale. It is the sub-
district of Hampstead. All who have been
upon its breezy heath, with its elevation three
or four hundred feet above the river, and its
open view of the surrounding country, will
readily understand why Hampstead should
rank high in salubrity—though its average of
rental may be low, and though more persons
(as they do) live in each house than in the
houses of Bermondsey and Rotherhithe.

Fourth on the list comes Hackney, which
has only thirteen persons to an acre. This
advantage will be seen more strongly, when
we know that Hampstead has but six, and
Lewisham, but two; whilst East London has
two- hundred and eighty, and Southwark, one
hundred and sixty-five persons per acre.
Hackney also has water from the New River,
a comparatively pure source; and, though
its houses are small, with a rental of but
£35, the number of occupants to each is but
seven.

For the fifth in order of salubrity we
have again to cross the Thames. It is
Camberwell. This parish lies very low, being
only four feet above the water mark; but,
then, it is fringed on one side by the open
country; is sheltered from cold winds; is
thinly peopled, having only twelve persons to
an acre, and only six occupants to a house.
Its drainage is, almost necessarily, bad, but
its neighbourhood to the green fields
compensates for many sanitary evils.

Wandsworth, with a burden of poor-rates
almost equal in poundage to that inflicted upon
Southwark and Lambeth comes next. The
recommendations of Wandsworth are, a
population of only four to an acre. This indication
of ample open spaces explains the general
healthiness of the parish. Its position and bad
drainage have rendered it liable to very heavy
loss from epidemics. Cholera found a larger
proportion of victims in Wandsworth than in
the densest peopled parish on the north of the
liver.

"Merry Islington " ranks only seventh in
spite of its high and dry position, and its New
River water, and its neighbouring fields. Its
elevation is eighty-eight feet above the river;
its density of population, twenty-five to an
acre; its average rental £35; its annual
deaths, one in fifty.

Kensington and Chelsea follow next, and
with them are included Brompton,
Hammersmith, and Fulham. They all lie low, but
are in pleasant company with fields and
open spaces; their people are well to do in
the world, and a large portion drink good
water.

The City of London district—that is, the
portion of the city round about the Mansion
House, and including the houses and
warehouses of the rich traders, who cluster near the
Lord Mayor's chosen dwelling-place—comes
next in order. This is explained by the
elevation of the ground, which is thirty-eight
feet above the river; by the value of the
property (average rental £117) which excludes
the poor; by the fact that the Lord Mayor
and his neighbours do not drink Thames
water; and that their wealth enables them to
live well, and to obtain the best medical aid,
—both for rich and poor. The most affluent
also reside out of town, and many of their old
people are drafted off in their old age to
alms-houses, and to country unions. The
mortality of this part of the city is two
hundred and fourteen a year out of ten
thousand living.

Next after the neighbourhood of the civic
ruler, we have the locality which has been
chosen for the palace of the sovereign—St.
James's. The population of this parish is
dense,—being two hundred and nine to an
acre, though its rentals are high. The palace
stands in by no means the best portion of the
district, but the saving points are the parks
and the absence of Thames water,

St. Pancras follows St. James's, its
recommendations being an elevation of eighty feet
above the river, and a population not
one-third so closely packed as that of the parish
occupied by the palace. Its density is sixty
persons to an acre. Pancras, however, has
many poor, and consequently heavy rates.

Marylebone, its neighbour, claims to follow
Pancras, with a greater elevation and a
better class of houses, yet with bad drainage
and a heavier mortality. In Marylebone two
hundred and twenty-two persons die in a
year out of ten thousand. The population is
more dense than in the poorer district of
Pancras, but the near neighbourhood of
Regent's Park and open country about Primrose
Hill has, of course, a favourable influence.

We have now to re-cross the river for the
thirteenth place upon this London Sanitary
Scale. It is Newington, a suburban parish,
with a level two feet below the water mark,
and with bad water, yet having fewer deaths
than more noted and more wealthy quarters.
Like Wandsworth, however, it suffered
severely from Cholera, as its swampy position
would lead one to expect.

The district round the palace of the
Archbishop—Lambeth—follows next in order. It
is raised but a very few feet above the high
water level; its rents are low, its poor rates
high, its nuisances many; and its water
supply bad. But it has the air-draught from
the river on one side, and it is not very far
from the fields on the other; and more than
all, it has but thirty-nine persons to an acre,
and so it escapes with fewer deaths in a year
than its unfavourable position would lead one
to anticipate. It is, however, another of those
spots where Cholera made great havoc.