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to every 23.5 living, or 42.5 per 1000; the " Green," 1 to every 22.6
living, or 44.2 per 1000.
The excess of registered births over deaths in this Parish, between the
years 1861—71, was 18,201, and our population increased only 15,099;
thus there is a total loss of 3102 on our natural increase. The excess of
births over deaths does not, however, form the real increase of a population;
for emigration and immigration have at all times a most important
influence, and must always be taken into account in any estimate upon
the subject. For instance: in the "Hackney Road" Sub-District there
was registered, between 1861—71, an excess of 5329 births over deaths;
yet the population only increased by 3510. There was thus a loss on
natural increase of 1819.
The "Church" had an excess of births over deaths of 4910, and the
population increased by only 1046: loss, 3864.
The "Town" showed an excess of births over deaths of 3943; but
not only is there the loss of this number, which should naturally form an
increase of the population of this division, but we have here positively
111 fewer inhabitants.
Now, if there is this loss in our natural increase in these Sub-Districts,
what has become of the inhabitants? Some have migrated to other
Districts, and others have gone to a Sub-District where many new houses
have been built—the "Green." In this division the excess of births over
deaths was 4019, and there was an increase in the population of 10,654.
This is not only the natural increase, but 6635 added to the population
by immigration.
PAUPER ILLNESS.