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Berwick Street Division.
Population in 1851, 10,798
Ditto in 1861, 10,608
Diminution, 190
Although for the sake of the health, comfort, and
morality of the parish, it might have been wished
that the diminution had taken place in the Golden
Square and more especially in the Berwick Street
Divisions, it is nevertheless an interesting fact to me
to know that the great diminution which has taken
place in the mortality of the parish has been in the
Golden Square and Berwick Street Districts, to
which more particularly I have directed attention in
putting sanitary measures in force.
An examination of the abstracts politely supplied
by the Registrar-General, afford some further interesting
details with regard to the population and
condition of the parish. Thus I find that in 1861
the number of females in excess of males was 2,098.
This number was distributed in the three divisions
of the parish and the Workhouse as follows:—
St. James's Square Division, 591
Golden Square Division, 1,146
Workhouse, 115
Berwick Street Division, 246
2,098
It is worthy of note that the disproportion is least