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and disease are inborn with them, and they easily
succumb to its effects
In the Appendix, will be found tables, showing
the number of houses, and persons in several
of the principal streets who are in receipt of
weekly relief, some are relieved on account of sickness
; many are widows, feeble and aged persons.
The books of the Medical Officers are examined
weekly for records of zymotic diseases and sanitary
nuisances.
The proportion per hundred living at different ages.
(a.) in the Population in Squares Mansions.
Under 5.
5 to 20.
20 to 40.
40 to 60.
60 and
upwards.
Gloucester Square
3⅓
21⅓
50⅓
19
6⅓
Hyde Park Square
3
18½
55
16½
7
Westbourne Terrace
3
20
51
17
6
(b.) In Houses let out in Tenements.
Cirencester Street
17
27½
37½
14
3¼
Woodchester Street
20
25½
35½
153/4
3½
20
26
36
14½
3
From this Table it will be seen that there are
six times the number of children amongst working
people, compared with an equal number of inhabitants
in squares and mansions.
Double the number of persons reach 60 and
upwards amongst the aristocracy ; and whereas 69
per cent. are living at ages between 20 to 60 in the
squares and mansions ; the same amount of vitality
in the population is represented by only 50 in the
artizan class.