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Green in the middle of 1878. Checked by the average
birth rate, this figure appears too groat, and makes no
allowance for the people temporarily displaced by the
building operations previously referred to. I have,
therefore, thought it advisable to reduce it, and to fix
the estimate in round numbers at 132,000.
The area of Bethnal Green is 755 acres, and the
number of occupied houses 17,311, a population of
174.8 to the acre, and an average of 7.7 persons to each
house.
On reference to the Registrar General's report we
learn that the density of population for the whole of
London was 7.8 persons to each house, and 47.5 to each
acre. In the following table, which Mr. Lapworth has
kindly prepared for me from the rate books, the distribution
of the houses, workshops, and factories in
the several wards of the parish will be seen at a gllance.