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The deaths in the Serpentine during the year have
been 3. In Hyde Park 7 persons, including 4 infants
have been found dead.
In the Hanover and May Fair Sub-Districts the gross
total mortality during the year ended 30th March, 1861,
has been 534, including the 96 deaths in the Mountstreet
Workhouse, 3 in the Serpentine, and 7 in the
Park. In the preceding four years, the numbers were respectively
560, 605, 543, and 567. And the deaths this
year were at the rate of 16.2 per 1,000 of the population,
(32,648,) as determined by the late census.
But in order to be more exact, we divide the streets of
the Hanover and May Fair Sub-Districts into two classes :
First, the aristocratic and first-class business streets,
such as Albemarle, Arlington, N. and S. Audley, Bond,
Bolton,and Brook streets, Berkeleyand Grosvenor squares,
&c. The population of these is very fluctuating, because
the inhabitants frequently visit the country, and many
of the houses are not occupied more than half the year.
The deaths at home in these streets during the past year
were 187; in the preceding four years respectively, they
were 216, 209, 192, 201. Estimating the population of
the streets in round numbers at 20,000, the death rate
has been 10.8, 10.45, 9.4, 10.05, and 9.2 deaths per
annum, out of every 1,000 living. One-third of these
deaths under 5 years of age.
Secondly, taking the second and third rate business
streets, the mews, and the dwellings of the artizan population
(such as Adam's-mews, Avery-row, Bruton-mews,
Bell-yard, &c., &c.,) the population may still in round
numbers be estimated at 13,000. It is a population, a large
part of which resorts to charity for medical attendance
and comforts in sickness, which is stationary, and enjoys