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Divisions of Districts referred to.
The different ways in which the Metropolis has
become divided for various purposes, are such as
tend to complicate the working out of statistical
results. The registration districts, or a sub-district
taken as the unit or basis having well-known
population, births, deaths, &c., are scarcely ever in
uniformity with districts defined for other purposes.
The Borough boundary for example, does not
correspond with a School Board district; the Post
Office and Police have districts at variance; the
Parish, with its division into Wards, under the
Metropolis Local Management Act, does not correspond
with either of the above, nor with the
sub-registration districts,having known populations;
Ecclesiastical districts appear to be best defined
and are selected for some reason for census districts.
The Poor Law Medical districts again, and the
Vaccination districts, also differ, so that it becomes
difficult to compare one set of facts with another.
The births and deaths, the number of houses
and people, the number of males and females at
given ages, or of any particular trade, the number
of paupers, prisioners, lunatics, sick in hospitals in
any one or more of these districts ought to be more
readily accessible to the public Authorities, and
capable at any time of being utilized for Statistical
information when discussing questions bearing
upon the local taxation, the water supply, the gas,
or other purposes.