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St Giles (Camden) 1889
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for St. Giles District]
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mean elevation of 39 feet above Trinity high-water mark,
the elevation varying from 11 feet below high-water mark in
Plumstead Marshes to 429 feet above high-water mark in
Hampstead
“ Houses.—At the Census in 1881 there were within
this area 486,05(3 inhabited houses, containing an average of
7'9 persons to a house, closely corresponding with the proportions
in 1861 and 1871.
" Annual Rateable Value.—The annua] rateable value
of property within Registration London in 1 889, as assessed
in accordance with the Valuation (Metropolis) Act, 1869,
was £31,450,002.*
"Density (1889).—58.3 persons to an acre ; 37,288 to a
square mile.
" Annual Rate of Increase of Population per
cent.: 1861-71, 1.50 ; 1871-81, 1 "61.
"1889.
| " Population (Estimated to the middle of the yeaf). | Males | 2,049,580 | Persons | 4,351,738 | |||||
| Females | 2,302,158 | ||||||||
| " Marriages | 35,484 | ||||||||
| " Persons Married | 70,968 | ||||||||
| "Annual Eate of persons married per 1,000 of the Population, | 16.3. | ||||||||
| "Births.— | Males | 67,067 | Persons | 131,487 | |||||
| Females | 64,420 | ||||||||
| " Annual Rate of Births per 1,000 of the Population, 30'3. | |||||||||
| " Deaths.— | Males | 38,749 | Persons | 75,683 | |||||
| Females | 36,934 | ||||||||
| " Annual Rate of Mortality per 1,000 | Males 19.0 | - Persons, 17.4 | |||||||
| Females 16.1 | |||||||||
| "Excess of Registered Births over Deaths | 55,804 | ||||||||
| "Estimated Increase of Population | 69,370." | ||||||||
| * From the Return issued by the London County Council. | |||||||||