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Short Summary of Births, Deaths, Vaccinations, and Sanitary
Statistics and Improvements, for One Year, from March 31,
1860, to March 30th, 1861.
This Report, with that which precedes and that which
follows it, have been delayed in the hope that we should
be able to embody in them some minute particulars respecting
the population, which we expected to get from
documents relative to the Census, promised by the Registrar-General,
and which would have been of great value
for sanitary and charitable purposes. In this, however,
we are disappointed. We may state, however, (since a
knowledge of the population is the only correct basis of
all questions of sickness and mortality,) that the population
of the whole parish has increased from 73,205 at the
census of 1851, to 87,747 in 1861. The proportion of
women to men is as nearly as possible 4 to 3.
The movement of the population has, however, been
unequal; the Hanover Sub-district has decreased from
20,219 to 19,770, involving a loss of about 500; the May
Fair is stationary ; the Belgrave has gained 15,000.
Regarding the loss of 500 in the Hanover Sub-district,
it appears that the "Enumeration Districts" of the census,
which on the whole shew the greatest decrease, consist of
the wealthiest houses and the mews: (for example, the
north side of Upper Brook-street, north side of Grosvenorsquare,
and west-side of Duke-street, contained only 538
in 1861, instead of 645 in 1851.) That some of the poorer
districts shew a decrease, owing to the shutting up kitchens,