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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 thore has been no material fluctuation since:
the population of these streets was then 20,000. The deaths in
them last year were 218, or at the rate of 10.9 per 1000 of the
population.
In the foregoing years, the numbers were:
1858 1859 1860 1801 1862 1868 1864
216 20!) 192 201 187 201 240
Out of the 21 s, the number of children's deaths under 5, was
41; last year it was 39, the year before 41, before that 43.
Poorer Streets. Now if we take the second and third-class
business streets, the mews, and the streets occupied by the artizan
and servant classes,—sucli as Adam's-mews, Avery-row, Barlowmews,
Bell-yard, &c., &c.—the population of these is 12,600, 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 266,
of whom 123 were children under 5, or nearly one-half. The
rate of persons who died at home, is 21 per 1000. The number
of deaths under 5 was 123 last year, and 121 the year before.
1857 1858 1859 1860 1861 1862 1863 1864
Total Deaths 251 293 269 279 241 303 258 273
Under Five 119 154 121 123
But all the deaths are not at home. There were 112 in the
workhouse and in St. George's hospital. We say nothing of the 17
deaths in the Serpentine, the streets, or Hyde Park, because they
do not belong to us as a parish; but taking the whole parish, we
find that of the gross total of deaths 2015, no fewer than 208
or ten per cent. occurred in beds provided by public or private
charity.
Mortality in Belgrave Sub-District.
The gross number of deaths in this Sub-District was 1381. In
the 7 foregoing years it was
1858 1859 1860 1861 1862 1868 1864
1124 1262 1242 1210 1368 1279 1388
Estimating the population to be stationary at the calculated
amount of last year, 59,500, the gross rate of mortality was about
23 2 per 1000. Excluding the deaths in St. George's hospital and
workhouses, the people who died at home, were 1045, or at the
rate of 17.5 per 1,000 living.
Deaths at home in Belgravia.
1&58 1859 1860 1861 1862 1863 1864
813 948 926 880 1060 962 1047
The deaths under 5 in this Sub-District were 445
1858 1859 1860 1861 1862 1868 1864
389 477 431 353 580 489 475