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ground rooms in Wentworth-street and Fashion-street from being used as
bakehouses, as I brought under your notice in my last two reports,*
So far as the regulation of bakehouses is concerned, it appears to me that
it would have been better to have left the inspection of bakehouses to the
supervision of the local authorities, and to have so amended the existing
Act relating to bakehouses as to have compelled the several owners thereof
to have taken out an annual license to be granted, if deemed fit, by the
Magistrates
Facts relating to the Area, Elevation, &c., op London.
In the last annual summary of births and deaths, and causes of deaths in
London, the Registrar-General informs the public "that the area of London
(the registration division so called) is 78,080 acres, or 122 square miles, including
2,718 acres of the Thames. The length of the streets and roads is
about 1,500 miles, and their area nearly 12 square miles. The area of London
being 122 square miles is equal to a square of about 11 miles to the side.
The sewers have a length of about 2,000 miles.
Elevation.—The population of London resides at a mean elevation
of 39 feet above Trinity High Water Mark.
Houses.—At the Census in 1871 there were within this area 417,767
inhabited houses, containing an average of 7.8 persons to a house.
Density (1871).—103 persons to a hectare; 42 persons to an acre;
2G,674 to a square mile.
Annual rate of increase of population per cent 1851-61 1.73
1861-71 1.50
Population.—Estimated to the middle of the year 1877 Males 1,653,841
Females, 1,879,643 Total, 3,533,484.
Births Males 65,122
Females 62,135 Total 127,257
Annual rate of Birth per 1000 of the population, 36.1.
Deaths Males 39,806
Females 37,196 Total 77,002
Annual rate of Mortality per 1000 Males 24.2 Females 19.9 Total 21.9
Excess of registered Births over Deaths 50,255.
Estimated increase of Population 43,938."
* The bakehouse situated in the cellar of 43, Fashion-street, and mentioned at
page 13 of my last Report, after the serving of a compulsory order on the owner of
the house to discontinue the use of such bakehouse has been abolished, and a new
one erected in the yard at the rear of the house.