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TABLE A.
Number of Houses, Workshops, &c., in the Parish of St. Matthew, Bethnal Green.
DIVISIONS.
COLLECTORS.
Inhabited
houses.
Workshops separate
from houses.
Saw mills and
timber yards.
Schools.
REMARKS.
East Ward
W. I. Shenton
4976
32
13
13
A Brickfield in the
District.
West Ward
(North Division)
H. Liebrecht
2600
78
10
7
West Ward
(South Division)
W. N. Eagles
1664
10
9
5
Three Railway
Arches.
North Ward
E. S. Smith
3020
18
21
5
South Ward
H. J. Bliss
5461
174
3
9
Total, 1880
17721
312
56
39
Total, 1879
17475
123
71
46
As will be seen by Table A, the figures in which are taken from the
books of the rate collectors, we have this year 17,721 houses assessed,
against 17,475 in 1879, an increase of 246 dwellings. Each of these
occupied (?) houses has an average of 7.1 inhabitants. Our parish covers
an area of 755 acres, and each acre has an average population of 168.2
persons. The Registrar-General, in his annual report, gives the density
of London at 7.8 inhabitants to each house, and 42 persons to each acre
for the year 1871.
BIRTHS AND DEATHS.
The number of deaths registered in this parish during the year was
2883, against 3022 last year. Amongst these were the deaths of 126
non-parishioners, who had been placed for purposes of medical treatment
in the various Public Institutions within our bounds. These nonresidents
I have excluded from the total deaths; but as numbers of our
parishioners apply for treatment, and are admitted as in-patients at other
Metropolitan Hospitals, a certain amount of these must die annually.
This number I have no means of ascertaining, and the only way I can
form an estimate of them is by taking an average hospital death rate in
the united London Hospitals, and this was 3.9 per thousand population.