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POPULATION AND MORTALITY.
To give any data with regard to our Mortality, it is in the first
place necessary to obtain as accurate an account of our Population,
and of the rate of increase, as possible.
From various returns I find that our population amounted in
1801 to 8,556
1811 „ 10,886 increase per cent. per annum 3
1821 „ 14,428
1831 „ 20,902 „ „ „ 4
1841 „ 26,834 „ „ „ 2¾
1851 „ 44,058 „ „ „ 6
Our parish may therefore be said to increase at nearly the ratio of
4 per cent per annum, and our estimated population for the present
year will be about 54,000.
By reference to Table A, you will perceive the total number of
deaths in the separate wards since the year 1840, and the number
of births in each ward, distinguishing those that are illegitimate:
also the increase of births over deaths, and the ratio of mortality per
thousand for the years when the census was taken. The first column
will indicate the prosperous condition of our parish, by the progressive
number of births from year to year. From the second, we
obtain the fact, that of all children born between 1846 and 1852,
3.84 per cent. were illegitimate, in the Brompton division—and 5'22
per cent. in the Town: the average being for the whole kingdom
6.9 for towns, and 18.1 for country. The fourth column is important
as shewing that, during every year, the number of births far exceeded
that of the deaths : but the most important deduction to be obtained
from this Table, (as shewing the great beneficial effect of the sanitary
measures which have been in progress since the outbreak of cholera,)
is, that the rate of mortality has decreased between the years 1841
and 1851.
The total number of deaths registered during the present year, has
been 1,199. If from this we subtract the large number of 190
occurring in the hospitals, but non-parishoners, the mortality of
the whole parish will be at the rate of 18.6 per 1,000.