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B. In the Ten Localities. The varying character of the residents
within the bounds of the same registration sub-districts renders a further
sub-division desirable in considering the localization of prevalent diseases in
St. Giles's. The same ten localities that have been adopted in former reports
will therefore be taken in the present for the further consideration of this
subject. Their boundaries have been often stated, and their population is
given in the VIIth Table of the Appendix. Here it is needful to remark
that however desirable it would be to make collection for the fluctuations of
population in each locality from year to year, this has not been found practicable,
and the population of 1861 is therefore retained as the basis for
calculations of death-rate.
The Mortality from all causes in 1863 was distributed in the ten localities
in the manner shown on the table next following. The order of healthiness
(on this standard) is not materially different from that observed in 1862,
indeed the five localities at the head of this table, and the one at the bottom
of the list stood in just those same positions in the former year. The fact is
seen—that would be startling if we had not got used to it—that three persons
die in the poorer parts of South St. Giles' for every one that dies in the richer
parts of Bloomsbury. And this is after exclusion of deaths in the workhouse.

The figures of this table tell sufficiently their own story. With the
remark that the mortality of the Coram Street locality was a shade under
that of 1862, we may pass to consider the ages at death and the chief causes
of death in each of the ten sub-divisions.