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mortality in the year ended 28th March, 1863, has been
577, including the deaths of 100 in the workhouse, the
bodies of 1 child and 1 adult found in the streets, 3 children
and 5 adults in the Serpentine, and 3 children and 3
adults in Hyde-park. The numbers for the preceding six
years in succession are, 560, 605, 543, 567, 534, and 570.
This gives a gross death-rate of 17.7 per 1000 for the year,
estimating the population as stationary at 32,500. Thus
during the last six years the mortality in this part of the
parish has fluctuated between 16, 17, and 18 per 1000
per annum.
We now proceed, as in former reports, to divide the
Hanover and May-Fair sub-districts into 2 classes of streets.
First, the aristocratic and first-class business streets and
squares—such as Albemarle and Arlington streets, North
and South Audley streets, Grosvenor and Berkeley squares,
&c. We obtained an exact record of the population of
these streets at the census of 1851, and we believe there
has been no material fluctuation since: the population of
these streets was then 20,000. The deaths in them last
year were 201, or at the rate of 10 per 1000 of the population.
The deaths for the foregoing six years have been
216, 209, 192, 201, 187, 187. Out of the 201 deaths, 41,
or one-fifth, were of children under 5.
Now if we take the remaining streets, that is the 2nd
and 3rd class business streets, the mews, and the streets
occupied by the artizan and servant classes. The population
of these is 12,500, say 13,000. The total
number of persons who died at home in these streets last
year, excluding all that died in the workhouse or in the
hospital, and all that were found in the park or streets, is
258, of whom 121 were children under 5, or nearly onehalf.
The rate of persons who died at home is 19.8 per
1000.