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Domestic Servants.
A large number of domestic servants tends to lower
the death rate, for the majority are of an age that only yields
naturally from 6 to 7 deaths per 1000. In Marylebone there
are 102,000 persons over 15 years of age, and of these 16
per cent. are in domestic service. (See Table VI.)
Lunatics, Blind, &c.
According to the census return (see Table VII) there
are only 8 lunatics in the Borough. The writer would
have thought there were more than this number.
Indeed, with regard to the whole table, since those
who become imbecile or deaf or blind within the district
are afterwards received in various charitable institutions
outside the district, the information is somewhat misleading.
Tenements.
Table VIII. is of great importance from the point of
view of decently housing the people. The table shows that
the total tenements of less than five rooms number 22,947,
and that 15,603 of the population occupy either one or at
the most two rooms, this is 11 per cent., or say 12 per cent,
of the population. In 1891 14 per cent. of the population
were housed in the same manner. In other words, the
oue and two-roomed tenements have decreased.