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regarded the causes of so vast an amount ot
misery, poverty, and death, and wonder that so
little was done for their removal.
I now present you with a table which will
shew the districts in which the death in 1858
has occurred, as well as the number of deaths,
and affords a comparison between the deaths of
1856, '57, and '58.
Name of District.
Population in
1857.
Acres in each
Division.
Persons to an
Acre.
Deaths in the Year 1858.
1857.
1856.
1st Quarter.
2nd Quarter.
3rd Quarter.
4th Quarter.
Total.
Total.
Total.
St. James's Square
Division,
11469
85
134
40
38
33
28
139
148
137
Golden Square
Division,
13555
54
262
54
42
43
63
182
232
211
Workhouse*
461
..
..
43
29
16
38
126
116
106
Berwick Street
Division,
10798
25
432
63
62
41
53
219
219
228
36283
104
200
171
133
162
666
715
682
From this Table it will be seen that the death in
1858 was less by 16 than in 1856, and by 49 than
1857. It will also be seen that the death in 1858
has been precisely the same in the Berwick Street
division as in 1857, greater in the Workhouse,
9 less in the St. James's Square division, and 50 less
in the Golden Square division than in that year.
The greatest improvement took place in the third
*The number of persons in the Workhouse during 1848, was less than
usual on account of the alterations going on in the building. I have ascertained
from the Master of the Workhouse that 170 persons have thus been
temporarily removed, and that amongst them four deaths have occurred.