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in the London City Registration District. This 'Liberty' contained
in 1891 69 inhabited houses, occupied by 779 persons, and in 1896 only 733
persons, according to the Imperial Census.
All deaths in Glasshouse Yard are included by the Registrar-General
as occurring in the City, but the Corporation is responsible only for the
sanitary condition of the area comprised in the "municipal" City of London,
from which this Yard, with the exceptions above mentioned, is excluded.
For statistical purposes, in the following pages the " Registration" District
is referred to when speaking of the "City."
This consists of 113 parishes, divided into three sub-districts, as under, viz.:—
St. Botolph including 17 parishes.
Allhallows Barking „ 85 „
St. Sepulchre „ 11 „
The populations of the above, calculated on the last Census Returns at the
middle of 1901, were:—
St. Botolph 10,910
Allhallows Barking 7,811
St. Sepulchre 8,690
Total 27,411
The Night population, therefore, of the City of London Registration District
at the middle of 1901, is taken at 27,411, and it is upon this figure that
all vital statistics in this Report have been calculated.
The Day population at the middle of 1901 was estimated at 349,180.
The Day Census taken in May, 1891, proved that 1,186,000 persons and
92,000 vehicles entered and left the City on the day the counting was made.
births.
During the year 1901, 377 births were registered in the City. The annual
birth rate was at the rate of 13.7 per 1,000 persons of all ages, compared with
a quinquennial mean rate of 15. 8 per 1,000. The birth rates last year in the
Sub-Districts were—
St. Botolph 18.1 per 1,000
St. Sepulchre 12.5 „
Allhallows 8.9 „
In the Metropolis the birth rate in *1900 was 28.6 per 1,000, being the
lowest hitherto recorded therein; while in England and Wales the rate
for the same year was 28.9, and the decennial mean rate 30.1.
This decline in the birth rate has been in operation since 1871 or 1872,
and is common to nearly all European countries.
* The figures for the Metropolis in 1901 are not yet published.