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show the mortality, male and female, for each
season of the year, and for each district and subdistrict
of the City. Of the 2,845 deaths in the
year, 1,472 were males, and 1,373 females. These
numbers are in the proportion of 107 of the former
to 100 of the latter. In the Eastern Union they
are as 97 to 100; in the Western, as 117 to 100 ;
and in the City proper as 111 to 100. In all
England the proportion is as 103 to 100. The
actual death-rate of the two sexes can scarcely be
estimated from these numbers, because they do not
comprehend the proportions of the living: but if
looked at from another point of view it will be seen
that the mortality of the several districts of the City
has ranged from 21.5 per 1,000 of the inhabitants
to 28.9. The first is the death-rate of the Central
district, and the last of the Western. In the
Eastern Union the mortality was as 259 to the
1,000; and in the whole of the City it has been
24.8. It may be that the actual death-rate is
not nearly so high as this, for the Census of
1861 was taken at a time when a very large
proportion of the City population was employed
beyond its boundaries; when, in fact, the demand
for labour in the hop fields and market gardens of
the adjoining counties had drawn the poorer part
of the population from their homes. This has
doubtless caused a smaller return of the population
of the poorer districts than there should have