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the difference in the number of persons coming to
London, and of persons leaving it, being last year as
nearly as could be ascertained 3,101.
These remarks do not apply to Greater London,*
where the conditions are reversed, the number contributed
by immigration greatly exceeding the number
of births.
By the Registration Act, which came into operation
on the 1st January, 1875, the registration of births is
now made compulsory.
Of the total births 2,927, there were registered in
the sub-district of St. Mary 2,179, and in that of
St. John 748. Of these, 1,500 were males, and 1,427
females, the proportion of the sexes being 100 males to
95 females, against 100 males to 96 females in London,
and (for the year 1874) throughout England.
In St. Mary's the proportion was 100 males to 99
females, and in St. John's 100 males to 86 females.
The births in the parish were most numerous in the
*The City of London has an area of one square mile, ruled over by
the City Authorities.
London (the registration division so called), has an area of 122 square
miles, and is under the jurisdiction of the Metropolitan Board of Works.
Greater London "extends over the City and over the Metropolitan
Police District. It is a circle, including all parishes of which any part is
within a radius of 12 miles, and all parishes which are entirely within a
circle with a radius of 15 miles from Charing Cross. The area is 698
square miles, equivalent to that of a circle of 14.9 miles radius. It
includes South of the Thames, Carshalton, Epsom, Croydon, Richmond,
Kingston, in Surrey; Bromley, in Kent; North of the Thames, Chiswick,
Brentford, Twickenham, Hampton, Staines, Uxbridge, Harrow,
Barnet, Hornsey, in Middlesex; Cheshunt, in Hertfordshire; Stratford,
Walthamstow, and Barking Town, in Essex. These bounds were fixed
by Sir Robert Peel."