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Census, the numbers in that square were 142 males, 274 females,
total 418, of whom 22 were under 15. This is probably an average
number for the whole year; but let us give all the houses the same
population as those of which the owners were in town at the time
of the Census, the full population would be 6.27.
The next is a diagram of a space forming one of the Enumeration
Districts of the Census, comprising parts of Little Eburystreet,
Warrad's-court. Ebury-square (an open space). Flask-row,
Susannah-place, Upper Ebury-street (part of), Kemp's-row,
Bridge-row, Darnlcy-cottages, Flask-lane, BoydVgardens, Averyfarm-row
(south side), Girdler's-mews, and Ebury-place. In this
there were 545 males, 642 females, total 1187 persons, of whom
302 were under 15 years of age.
Thirdly,— Arrangement of Space.—When many human beings
are to be planted on a small space of ground, the dwellings
should be in good blocks, so arranged as to let the sun and wind
have full sweep; and without odd close back yards, culs de sac.
courts, &c., &c. The distinction between dwellings of rich and
poor is clear enough in this respect from a glance at the
diagrams.
Fourthly,—Proportions of the Sexes.—Nothing is more remarkable
than the accumulation of women of the active and healthy
time of life, as servants in the houses of the rich. Throughout
them, the women are to the men as 2 or 3 to one ; in the poorer,
the proportions are nearly equal.
Fifthly,—The Absence of Domestic Servants.—Out of the 333
families comprising the 1187 persons inhabiting the poor patch
of streets above designated, there is not one domestic servant.
Sixthly,—the proportion of children ; always greatest where
the families are poorest and smallest. Hence such districts show
the high mortality necessarily attendant on infant life. Moreover,
it is almost impossible for one woman to rear children ; she
must have the aid of others of her own sex, and the deficient
means of the poor tell heavily here.
Such are some few of the evils of poverty and of the
statistics of the poor.
Now we may compare the yearly mortality of the group of
squares and streets, which we have given in earlier Reports; only