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THE STRAND DISTRICT, LONDON.
the parish being recorded. Some of these are relics of
streets and courts long since swept away. One had
been a pauper inmate since 1863.
In the Special Report which I have made under the
Housing of the Working Classes Act, I have dealt
with the causes of the high death-rates prevailing in
parts of St. Mary and St. Clement's parishes.
The estimate of the Registrar General (made under
the "Equalisation of Rates Act") with the additions of
the inmates of outlying Poor Law institutions, nearly
agrees with my own on the whole population, but in
respect of the individual parishes we differ in our
estimate of St. Anne, Soho, and St. Clement Danes.
The estimates are made on the basis of a comparison
of the number of houses on the rate books in 1891
and 1894. According to this estimate, St. Anne's has a
population (with paupers) of 12,788, and St. Clement
Danes 7,518. This would alter the death-rate to 15.7
for St. Anne, and 26.7 for St. Clement's parish.
The Registrar-General, however, working on his usual
basis (viz. on the increase or decrease shown at each
Census period), produces a different estimate of the
popularion, whereon he calculates births and deathrates,
so that probably the truth lies somewhere between
the three estimates. If fewer houses be rated in St.
Clement's Parish, those which are occupied now hold
more people than formerly, while in St. Anne's Parish
the new buildings occupied since the Census have been
chiefly constructed in flats, each containing fewer than
the average number of occupants.
Mortuaries in the District.
During the year, the number of dead bodies received
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