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St Giles (Camden) 1891

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for St. Giles District]

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Table: TABLE I.Showing the Population, Inhabited Houses, Marriages, Births and Deaths for the Year 1891, and Ten Years Preceding.GROSS NUMBERS.

TABLE I.

Showing the Population, Inhabited Houses, Marriages, Births and Deaths for the Year 1891, and Ten Years Preceding.

GROSS NUMBERS.

The Year.Estimated population.Number of Inhabited Houses.Marriages.Registered Births.Corrected Deaths.
Total all ages.Under one year.Total under five years.In public Institutions outside the District.In public Institutions inside the District.
1891*39,778*4,0683701,146†1,092213352261‡246
1890......3471,1831,035190299258197
1889......3221,197904176296233109
1888......3411,210853188277199149
1887......3181,2141,045217144213161
1886......3031,2861,038212373177167
1885......3371,3281,077217365231234
1884......3441,5261,264278502218210
1883......3641,4361,006260447164209
1882......3571,5381,010231418157196
1881......3531,4871,008235379162236
Average of 10 years, 1881-1890......3381,3401,024220350201186

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NOTES.
1.—Population at Census, 1891 39,778.
2.—Average number of persons in each house at
Census, 1891 9 "7.
3.—Area of ) St. George, Bloomsbury, 122
district j St. Giles-in-the-Fields, 123 245 acres.

Table: 4.—Quinquennial Valuation Lists 1890, as amended by Sir Peter Edlin at Quarter Sessions:—

4.—Quinquennial Valuation Lists 1890, as amended by Sir Peter Edlin at Quarter Sessions:—

Gross.Rateable.
St. George, Bloomsbury 216,246181,048
St. Giles-in-the-Fields 273,573228,03.9
£489,819£409,087

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* Census 1891.
† Inclusive of the deaths of parishioners at Public Institutions outside the
district, and exclusive of the deaths of non-parishioners at Public Institutions
within the district.
‡ 246 persons died in public institutions inside the district, but 72 were
non-parishioners.