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560, 605, 543, and 567. The weekly averages being
10.76, 11.63, 10.26, and 10.9, for the four years respectively.
And the deaths were at the rate of 17 per
1,000 of the population, supposing the population to be
stationary at 33,000, which was the amount in 1851.
In the aristocratic and first-class business streets of
the Hanover and May Fair Sub-Districts, taken together
(such as Albemarle, Arlington, Audley, Berkeley, Bond,
Bolton, Brook, &c., &c.), the population of which was in
round numbers 20,000 at the census of 1851, the deaths in
the last four years, ending respectively 31st March, 1857,
58, 59, and 60, have been respectively 216, 209, 192, and
201; or at the rate 10.8, 10.45, 9.4, and 10.05 deaths per
annum, out of every 1,000 living.
In the second rate business streets, and the thoroughly
poor streets and mews of these Sub-Districts (such as
Adam's Mews, Avery Row, Bruton Mews, Bell Yard,
Bishop's Yard, &c., &c.), the population of which in 1851
was in round numbers 13,000, the deaths at home during
the four years were 251, 293, 269, and 279 respectively,
that is at the rate of 19.3, 22.4, 20.3, and 21.46 per
1,000 living per annum.
But inasmuch as many of our streets are of a mixed character,
suppose we take the mews separately from the other
dwellings of the labouring classes. Their population in
1851 was nearly 3,000; the average mortality during the
preceding three years was nearly 16 per 1,000 per annum.
During the year just expired it was 17.6 per 1,000; and
the deaths under 20 were 64 per cent, of the whole.
Let us next take a group of purely ARISTOCRATIC streets
—Berkeley Square, Grosvenor Square, Upper Brook
Street, Upper Grosvenor Street, Park Lane, Hill Street,
and Norfolk Street. These are specimens of streets