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Bethnal Green 1855

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Bethnal Green, Parish of St. Matthew ]

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Table: TABLE II.*

TABLE II.*

PARISHES.HOUSES 1851.POPULATION 1851.
Inhabited.Uninhabited.BuildingNumberMalesFemales
St. Matthew1167191796139284033
St. Andrew1591291027249775295
St. Bartholomew1472491001649575059
St. James the Great750151450321682335
St. James the Less3682114235711471210
St. John10904761769635914105
St. Jude168668151039650255371
St. Matthias1078284869643794317
St. Peter9003111511524322683
St. Philip1336321141856815737
St. Simon Zelotes6622410420020992101
St. Thomas11983110756336973866
Totals13298394127901934408146112

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Altogether there were, at the Census, 13,819 houses, or
18.1 to the acre, and the number of Inhabitants was 6 to
each house.
Population.
In 1801 the population amounted to 22,310; in 1811, to
to 33,619; in 1821, to 45,676; in 1831, to 62,018; and from
that year to 1841, the annual per centage increase was
1.755.† The annexed Table exhibits the population in 1841
and 1851, the decennial advance, and the relative proportions
of the Birth and Immigration Increase:—

Table: TABLE III.

TABLE III.

SUB-DISTRICTS.POPULATION.
18411851Decennial per centage Increase.Excess of Births over Deaths.Census Returns.Immigration Increase.
Hackney Road200312391019.3633053848543
Green167662355540.4971967636044
Church172932178725.98333844681130
Town19998209414.713335912

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* This Table will hereafter be useful in comparing the salubrity of the
several parts, † Ninth Annual Report of Registrar-General, p. 169.