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ON THE SANITARY CONDITION OF STRAND DISTRICT
Equalisation of Hates Act, the Registrar-General estimates the
population resident in this District as 23,654 (11,685 in St.
Anne's, 11,969 in the Strand Sub-District), so that there is a
difference of 906 between his two estimates. My own calculation
of the population as at the middle of the year 1900, is 23,500,
including inmates of the Poor-Law establishments connected
with the District. This figure is divided into 11,500 for the
Strand portion of the District, and 12,000 for St. Anne's portion,
and is possibly too high an estimate.
Births.
The total number of births registered in the District was
446. This has to be corrected by the addition of 5 births in
Poland Street Workhouse, 6 in Edmonton Workhouse, and 24,
which I am informed through the courtesy of the Secretary,
occurred in the British Lying-in Hospital, Endell Street; while 8
births in Bear-yard Workhouse have to be placed to the credit of
St. Martiu-in-the-Fields parish, leaving a total of 473 births. The
birth rate is thus 20.1 per 1,000 inhabitants, as against 21.2
in 1899. The birth rate in London for 1900 was 28.6 per 1,000;
the average of the previous ten years was 30.4.