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merit to proceed with the important improvements in which your
Board has been actively engaged during the past two years, and
to which I shall hereafter refer.
15. It is noticeable that the Death-rate for Bloomsbury was only
18 per 1000, whilst for St. Giles South, it was 30.2, indicating a
much higher sanitary condition in the former Sub-District than in the
latter. This is no doubt true, but at the same time, it is necessary
to reiterate a fact to which I have already drawn attention (§7), that
the population of Bloomsbury consists largely of servants, who do not
die in the Sub-Districts, consequently the low Death-rate is rather
apparent than real.
16. This observation should be extended to large quarters of the
Metropolis reputed to have a low mortality, namely: Paddington, St.
George, Hanover Square, Kensington, parts of Marylebone, the City,
etc. Besides household servants, nearly the whole of the assistants
in the warehouses and retail shops of London come from the provinces,
and return thither when they are seriously ill. Before a
strictly correct Death-rate can be fixed, these circumstances must be
taken into account.
The Death-rate among Infants in St. Giles District.
17. The number of Deaths among Infants under one year of age
was 314. This is about the number we usually sustain. Of this
number 94 belonged to the Sub-District of Bloomsbury, 124 to St.
Giles South, and 96 to St. Giles North. The rate of Morality to the
Births in each Sub-District was as follows:—
Whole District 1 Death in every 5.1 Births = 19.5 per cent, of Births.
St. George, Bloomsbury 1 do. do. 5.1 do. = 19.5 „
St. Giles South 1 do. do. 5.0 do. = 19.8 „
St. Giles North 1 do. do. 5.2 do. = 19.1 „
In the foregoing estimate for the whole District, 30 Births which
occurred in the Workhouse are omitted, the previous residences of
the mothers being unknown. Their inclusion, however, would only
make a difference of the decimal 1.
The Death-rate among Persons 60 years of Age and upwards.
18. 279 persons died at these ages, of which 68 belonged to the
Sub-District of St. George, Bloomsbury, 151 to St. Giles South, and
60 to St. Giles North.
The ratios to the whole mortality and to population are thus expressed:—
Whole District 1 death in every 4.57 of all deaths and in every 191.5 of pop.
St. George, Bloomsbury 1 do. do. 4.07 do. and do. 262.0 do.
St. Giles South 1 do. do. 3.83 do. and do. 126.4 do.
St. Giles North 1 do. do. 5.6 do. and do. 241.6 do.
St. Giles South has had the largest number of Deaths above 60
years of age, both in relation to total Deaths and to Population. This
must be owing to the undue number of old persons living in that
Sub-District, who are partly immigrants from Ireland and partly