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remarkable difference in the average numbers of births
and deaths.
Tables Nos. 2 and 3, show how much larger is the
death-rate in our poorest localities. The two districts of
Charing Cross and Long Acre contain nearly the same
amount of population, but there is considerable difference
in the condition of the people. In the Long
Acre district we have Drury Lane, Bedfordbury, and
the largest number of courts, &c., where the poorest of
our population reside, and the number of deaths exceed
that of the Charing Cross district by more than 100.
The proportion of deaths from epidemic diseases is also
larger, as is also the deaths of children under 5 years.
Nothing can more clearly show that the mortality of a
district is increased by poverty and its accompaniments,
overcrowding, bad management of children, and illventilated
rooms.