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in each case, above the standard, that of the births
has been somewhat below it; the number of marriages,
indeed, has been nearly 64 per cent, greater
than the common average: in other words, while
only 164 persons out of 10,000 marry every year
in the whole country, 268 marry in the City.
The highest of the City birth-rates has been in
the Eastern Union, where it has reached to 31.8
per 1,000 of the people, and the lowest has been
in the Central Union, or City proper, where it has
amounted to only 21.4 per 1,000.
The distribution of the deaths has also been very
unequal; in the Eastern and Western Unions the
general proportions have been at the rate of 25.8
per 1,000 of the population, whereas in the Central
district it has been but 20.6. The cause of
this has been, not so much the difference in the
character of the population, as in the density of it.
In the former districts the number of persons upon
an acre ranges from 200 to 266, whereas in the
latter the number is but 105. This, however, is
an excessive density when compared with the town
districts of England where, upon an average, there
are scarcely five persons to an acre; and contrasted
with the mortality of those districts, which
amounts to 24.8 per 1,000, the death-rate of the
whole City is remarkably small.