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1012 were males and 110 less than 3510 females. There is a
singular change in the relative numbers of husbands and wives
above the age of 45, as under that age the number of wives in
the district is much in excess of that of the husbands, whilst
above that age the proportion of husbands is at all ages in excess
of that of the wives, although the total number of males alive at
those ages is much below that of females.
I now purpose discussing Table 4, which has been calculated
from the census returns and from information kindly given to
me by Mr. Clode of the Registrar General's office. The plan
adopted for calculating the death-rates for the different districts
wag, to eliminate the deaths in hospitals and extraneous workhouses,
by which I mean workhouses situated in one district but
which belong to some other parish—such as the City of London
Workhouses, which are situated in Hackney, Bow, and Poplar.
These deaths in extraneous workhouses were restored, as well as
the population, to the districts to which they belong, but not the
deaths in hospitals, as it was impossible to have done this with
the materials at my disposal. The death-rates are calculated
without any allowance for deaths in hospitals, and are therefore
a little too low, but as the same plan is adopted for all London
it cannot make much difference, except to the poorer localities
which supply most patients to the hospitals.