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And here, before I leave this part of the subject,
I may mention that the preceding facts have been
deduced from the mortality returns in the City
during the last nine years. In 1864, when the
decennial averages can be taken, I hope to have
the opportunity of developing these facts more
fully. I may also mention that the numbers taken
for the population of the City, as well as for the
different classes, is the mean of the census returns
of 1851 and 1861; and on comparing those returns,
I have found that the falling off in the population
during the last ten years has not been so much by
the migration of the better classes from the City
as by the reduction of the number of the labouring
classes. In 1851 there were about 15,383 labourers,
masons, carpenters, blacksmiths, painters, tailors,
and shoemakers in the City, whereas in 1861 there
were but 12,196 of these classes; about one-fifth,
therefore, of this section of the population has
migrated from the city to other districts. The
classes which have been stationary, or nearly so, are
shopkeepers, porters, messengers, cabmen, ostlers,
publicans, and those engaged in police duties. On
the other hand, the number of sempstresses and
needlewomen has increased to the extent of nearly
75 per cent.
The sickness returns for the year are below the
average of former years. Only 10,495 cases of
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