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St Martin-in-the-Fields 1858

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for St. Martin-in-the-Fields, Vestry of]

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21
BIRTHS AND DEATHS
IN THE

CHARING CROSS AND LONG ACRE DISTRICTS In the Year 1858.

DistrictsPopulationBirthsRate per 1000DeathsRate per 1000
Charing Cross12,58724519,4725119.94
Long Acre12,05336430.2430024.98

Deducting half the Deaths, occurring in Charing Cross
Hospital as the average number of parishioners dying in
this and other Hospitals, and distributing those deaths
equally into the two districts, by giving half the deaths
on the workhouse to the Long Acre District, although
the probability is that much more than half the inmates
if the workhouse come from that district.