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The Berwick Street Sub.District appears as covering an
area of 108 acres, and containing a population of 18,280.
Taking these data from the Census, the mean density of
the population of the whole District appears as 184 per acre,
while the density of the population of the Golden Square
Sub.District appears as 215 persons per acre, and that of the
Berwick Street Sub.District as 169 persons per acre.
The mean density of the population in Registration
London is 52.9 persons to the acre.
During the year 1890 the death.rate of Registration
London has been 20.3 per 1,000; the death.rate of Greater
London has been 19.4 per 1,000; the death.rate of England
and Wales has been 19.2 per 1,000.
It will be seen that the death.rate of London for the
year 1890 was higher than its death.rate for any one of
the five preceding years, and was an interruption to the
almost unbroken fall in the London mortality that began
in 1879.
This increase is partly accounted for by the inclusion in
the London mortality this year, for the first time, of the
deaths of Londoners occurring in outlying institutions.
Against these deaths, as affecting the District of St.
James's, Westminster, are to be set the deaths of strangers
who come to London for medical advice and die in the
wards of London hospitals and infirmaries, and in hotels
and lodging houses. A very large number of hotels and
lodging houses exist in St. James's, and in St. James's
these deaths have been taken as balancing those from St.
James's occurring in outlying institutions, though the
deaths of strangers occurring in the Union House, and in