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In the third-class and poor streets and mews, whose population
in 1857 was, in round numbers, 13,000, the deaths in
the last three years were 251, 293, and 269; or at the rate
of 19.3, 22.4, 20.3 per 1,000 per annum; exclusive of deaths
in hospitals and workhouses.
If we take the purely aristocratic streets, Berkeley
Square, Grosvenor Square, Upper Brook Street, Upper
Grosvenor Street, Park Lane, Hill Street, and Norfolk
Street, with a population of 2,600, the deaths in the three
years were 45, and of these 3 of persons under 20.
Take another cluster of streets, including New and Old
Bond Street, Oxford Street, (south side of, from Park Lane
to Regent Circus,) Maddox Street, and North Audley Street,
with a population of 3,158, the deaths were 119, of which
31 were of persons under 20.
Take another cluster, including Brick Street, Brown
Street, Gilbert Street, George Street, Oxford Street, Hart
Street, Robert Street, South Molton Street, Thomas Street,
Union Street, and Woodstock Street, with a population of
4,413, the deaths in three years were 298, of which 151
were of persons under 20.
In the Belgrave Sub-district the deaths at home were
948, weekly average 17.8, against 813, weekly average 15.3
last year.
We do not know the exact population of this Subdistrict,
but assume that it has increased from 40,034 in
1851, to 48,383. If then we take the deaths at home, 948,
those in the hospital 53, and in the Little Chelsea Workhouse
33, making 1,034, the mortality is at the rate of
20.9 per 1,000 per year of 52 weeks; whereas, if we calculate
the mortality of the older Sub-districts in the most
unfavorable manner, giving them the entire mortality of the