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As now constituted the Population consists of 24,138
separate families (1.6 to a house) of whom 51,193 are Males
and 53,612 Females. They occupy 14,812 houses, and while,
on the average, 138 individuals live on each acre of ground,
7 persons reside in every house. On review of the population
and houses of the two preceding decennia the density of
occupation has uniformly increased; being in 1841, 6.3 persons,
in 1851, 6.7 persons, and in 1861, as above, 7 persons
to each inhabited house. The next Table gives subdivisionally
all the details for 1861:—

By way of comparison there are in the City "8.4 persons
to a house and 156 to an acre; whereas in the rest of London
there are but 7 persons to a house and only 35 to an acre."
In St. Clement Danes the density "upon each acre is 576."
In its ratios to London, Bethnal Green contains 1 out of
every 25.58 persons, and forms rather more than one 102nd
part of the 78,029 statute acres on which London stands.
2. Vital Statistics.
4079 living Infants, or an excess of 1854 over the deaths
constituted our natural increase in 1861. The total is 28
below that of 1860, and comprises 2129 Boys and 1950 Girls;
of whom on the average 11 were born every day. To each
*These Returns were supplied to me by the order of the Registrar General, on
July 15th, 1861. Since that time, the Registrar General has numbered the Population
as in the 3rd column of Table A. The difference of the two estimates is 296.