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in each house in the St. James's Square Division;
there are ten in each house in the Golden Square
Division, but there are thirteen in each house in the
Berwick Street Division. It is by the light of such facts
as these that we may read the causes of the death
and disease, if not even the immorality of the poorer
district. In the Berwick Street Division too, I
would call to your mind the fact that the houses are
much smaller, so that it is not unfrequently the case
that families are crowded together into a space
totally inadequate to the maintenance of healthy life.
There are 430 persons living on an average in each
acre of the Berwick Street Division, whilst in the
Golden Square Division there are but 260, and in
the St. James's Square Division 130.
Such are some of the facts which the Census
brings to light, and I propose in a future Report to
lay before you more minutely the arrangements for
living which are made in this parish, whose physical
well-being the legislature expects you to superintend
and to some extent even answer for. In each division
of the parish there are spots, where the population is
denser than the vicinity, and it is these spots in which
disease is most rife, and death most frequent, and
whose population must be watched most constantly
if disease is to be arrested and life to be saved.
MORTALITY OF 1861.
From an examination of the Tables of Mortality
it will be found that the number of deaths in 1861
was 758. This mortality exceeds by thirty-three