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POPULATION OF THE CITY OF LONDON.
the City has increased about 3| per cent.; that this
increase has not been uniform through the nine
sub-districts of your jurisdiction; that in some it
has been unimportant; that in others there has
been an actual decrease, extending even to 4,7/10 per
cent, on the previous population; while in the whole
East London Union the numbers have risen considerably
above the aggregate rate of increase, and in
the St. Botolph sub-district exceed those of the
former census by more than 16 percent.
Passing over the minor differences which have
taken place in the distribution of the population, I
cannot regard that larger increase without apprehension
and regret. Probably for the most part it
represents the continued influx of a poor population
into localities undesirable for residence, and implies
that habitations—previously unwholesome by their
over-crowdedness—are now still more densely
thronged by a squalid and sickly population.
I congratulate your Honourable Court on the
recent acquisition of powers (to the nature of which
I shall presently revert) for the reduction and prevention
of this serious evil.
2. The second table (Appendix, No. II.) presents
a summary of the City mortality for the year which
terminated at Michaelmas last; showing the deaths,
as they have occurred, male and female, during each
quarter of the year, in the several districts and subdistricts
of the City; and including, at the foot of