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In part explanation of this fact it should be noted that the district is largely occupied by a population
not employing domestic servants. As long ago as 1861, 9.6 per cent. of the females in the district
were employed as domestic servants, whereas in London as a whole the proportion was 13.5 per cent.
Since that year, as already stated, the females have decreased in larger proportion than the males; this
decrease, no doubt, being in part attributable to the increasing tendency of that portion of the population
generally employing domestic servants to migrate from the central districts of the metropolis to the
suburbs.

It may be concluded therefore from the evidence which is available that the population of the
sanitary district of St. Saviour contains a considerable excess of persons in the industrial class, an
excess of males over females, and this population has an age-distribution which does not differ from
that of London as a whole.

It will be seen that the fall which has taken place in the London birth-rate during the last
period of ten years, has been shared by the district of St. Saviour.
Deaths.—The statistics published by the Registrar General enable the death-rates of London
sanitary districts, corrected for deaths in institutions, to be known only since the year 1885. Since
that year deaths occurring in public institutions belonging to London have been distributed to their
proper districts.