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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 273, of whom 123 were children under 5, or nearly onehalf
The rate of persons who died at home is 21 per 1000. The
number of deaths under 5 was 121 last year and 154 the year
before.
But we need scarcely say, that people of this class do not all
die at home. And if we add together the deaths of our 61
fellow-parishioners, who died in St. George's Hospital, and the
140 in the two workhouses, = 201, and compare this with the
gross mortality 2054, we shall see that this year, as heretofore,
one in every ten of our parishioners who died in this parish, died
in a bed provided by public or private charity.
The gross number of deaths in the Belgrave Sub-District is
1368. If we estimate the population at the close of the year
1862 as 59,500, the gross rate of mortality was very nearly 23 per
1000 living. If we exclude the 321 deaths in St. George's Hospital,
and take no account of those which occurred in the workhouses,
the deaths at home were 1047, or at the rate of 17.5 per
1000 living.
One infant was found in Belgrave-square, 1 in Eaton-square,
and 1 in Hyde-park.
The deaths under 5, in the Belgrave Sub-District, were 475, or
nearly half of the total deaths at home. Last year the deaths
under 5 in this Sub-District were 489. In the year before 580.
So that in this year, and the foregoing, there has been a saving
of nearly 100 children's lives.
We have not the exact record of the population in the streets
of the Belgrave Sub-District as we have of the Hanover and
Mayfair; but just as we have shown the contrast between the
rich streets and poor streets in the one, so we can in the other
District. For an example, in 5 squares inhabited by the rich and
7 streets inhabited by the poor, the deaths under and over 5 during
the last three years were as follows:—