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If the populations on which these figures are based be correct the
reduction in the deaths of both sexes is very marked. It should be noted,
however, that in the earlier years deaths came in of persons who had
been in the Poor Law Institutions for many years and who had
been admitted from areas in the City in which the houses no longer existed,
for instance, it is noted in 1901 that one death was of a person who lived
where the Law Courts now stand and another was of a person who had
been an inmate since 1878. The same thing occurs still but to a smaller
extent of persons admitted from areas more recently cleared, as in St.
John's Ward, but deaths even now come in of persons who lived in the
Clare Market area. Such deaths affect chiefly the higher ages.
I have also worked out the death-rates for each Ward for each year,
but here again the fluctuations of population make it difficult to be certain
about intercensal years. I have, therefore, selected the three census
years and the ones following as being more likely to give a reliable basis
for calculation.
Conduit.
Grosvenor.
Knightsbridge
St. George.
Victoria.
St. Margaret.
St. John.
Ha;r.let of
Knightsbridge.
Pall Mail.
Regent.
Great Marlborough.
Charing
Cross.
Covent
Garden.
Strand.
St. Anne.
1901-2 9.1 10.7 10.4 16.1 14.0 23.0 8.6 9.2 16.0 19.0 10.4 17.6 25.3 13.8
1911-12 6.8 8.2 7.4 14.8 10.1 17.3 9.0 8.5 10.6 11.7 8.0 12.7 23.0 11.5
1921-22 6.5 8.2 9.1 13-3 9.8 16.9 8.5 9.2 9.5 10.3 6.8 8.2 31.0 11.2
Some explanation is required with reference to St. John and the
Strand Ward figures. Both these districts suffer in the same way, first,
on account of having deaths placed to their debit, the population from
which they spring having gone, and secondly, all the Common Lodging
Houses in the City are situated in these wards, and these add heavily to
the death-rate. Thus for 1921 and 1922 the rates for males in St. Johns
Ward was 19.2 per 1,000, but without Lodging House deaths it is reduced
to 14 per 1,000, similarly the female death-rate would be reduced from
14.4 to 13.8. In the Strand Ward the total population has fallen to
2,116 and half of the male population (1,400) live in a common lodging
house, so that the addition of deaths of old residents of the ward and of
lodging house inmates tells heavily in the death-rates. Deducting these
latter deaths only, the male rate is reduced from 37.8 to 20 per 1,000.
Work Premises.—The Northern part of the City has and is still a great
centre for tailoring and dressmaking, and regular attention has been
given to the condition of the places where persons were employed in these