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In the Hanover and Mayfair Sub-Districts the gross mortality in
the year ended 2nd April, 1864, has been 630, including the deaths of
104 in the workhouse, the newly-born child whose body was found
in the streets, 4 adults in the Serpentine, and 8 children in Hydepark.
The numbers for the preceding seven years in succession
are, 563, 605, 543, 567, 534, 570, and 577. This gives a gross
death rate of 19.6 per 1000 for this year, estimating the population
as stationary at 32,500. Thus during the last seven years the
mortality in this part of the parish has fluctuated between 16, 17,
18, and 19 per 1000 per annum.
We now proceed, as in former reports, to divide the Hanover
and Mayfair Sub-Districts into two 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, Old and New Bond streets,
Bolton, Brook, and Bruton streets, &c„ &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 240, or at the rate of 12 per 1000 of the population.
The deaths for the foregoing seven years have been 216,209,
192, 201, 187, 187, 201. Out of the 240 deaths, 39, or one-sixth,
were of children under 5. The number of children's deaths was
41 last year, 43 the year before.
Now if we take the remaining streets, that is the second and
third class business streets, the mews, and the streets occupied by
the artizan and servant classes,—such as Adam's-mews, Averyrow,
Barlow-mews, Bell-yard, &c., &c.—the population of these
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