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inquests necessary, and the deaths were accordingly registered upon
such information as could be obtained from the friends of the
deceased, and were respectively entered as old age, phthisis, and
childbed (a midwife only in attendance).
By the Friendly Societies' Act it is illegal for any registered society
to pay any sum of money upon the death of a member, except upon
the production of a certificate under the hand of the registrar of
deaths, and this certificate the registrar must give for the sum of one
shilling. It is also illegal to insure, or pay, on the death of a child
under five years of age, any sum exceeding six pounds; or on the
death of a child under ten years, any sum exceeding ten pounds.
POPULATION.
By the Registrar General's plan I estimate the population of
Bethnal Green for the middle of the year 1877 at 129,600. The area
of the district is 755 acres, and the number of inhabited houses
17,325: this gives a population of 145.1 to the acre, and an average
of 7.4 inhabitants to each house. The corresponding density for the
whole of London being 7.8 persons to each house and 46.9 to each
acre. The following table, prepared for me by Mr. W. W. Burrows,
gives the distribution of the houses, workshops, etc., in the various
wards of the parish.
TABLE A.
Number of Houses, Workshops, &c., in the Parish of St. Matthew, Bethnal Green
Inhabited
Houses.
Workshops
separate from
Houses.
Saw Mills and
Timber Yards.
Schools.
REMARKS.
East Ward
4990
31
12
12
A Brickfield in this
District.
West Ward (North Division)
2675
48
10
3
West Ward (South „
1650
9
15
4
North Ward
3019
17
22
5
South Ward
4991
• •
17
20
90 Railway Arches
used as Warehouses,
&c.
Total
17325
105
76
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