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It will be noticed that these numbers, excepting the Hospital
deaths, are less than in the preceding year.
At the Census in 1871 the population of Clerkenwell amounted
to 65,380 ; in 1881 to 69,076 ; the increase being 3,696. Assuming
this rate of increase to have continued during the last four
years, the present population of the parish would be 70,552.
At this rate the inter-parochial mortality for the year has been
16.9 per 1,000 ; including the hospital deaths, 18.6 ; and the
workhouses and infirmary deaths, 21.1 per 1,000. This mortality
compares well with that of the model parish of Chelsea, the parish
supervised by the self-constituted censor of Clerkenwell, Sir
Charles Dilke. In Chelsea the mortality amounted to 23.1 per
1.000; and in the parishes of St. Luke and St. Giles, the mortality
was 26 per 1,000.
Hence the mortality of the year has been less than that of the
preceding year.
The mortality for all London during the year was 19.6 ; that
of the West Districts, 17.7 ; of the North Districts, 18.5 ; of the
Central Districts, 25.5 ; of the East Districts, 22.1 ; and of the
South Districts, 18.8.
So that, again, Clerkenwell still holds its place at the head of
its own group of crowded Central Districts, and of the East Districts
with their sparse population; and the crowding of an
ordinary population in an acre, always exerts a powerful influence
upon the mortality of a District.
It may be interesting to mention the population per acre in
the various London parishes, for without attention to this particular
comparisons of mortality may be very misleading. It is
this:—In Paddington, 86 per acre; in Kensington, 74; in
Fulham, 27; in Chelsea, 102; St. George, Hanover Square,
73; Westminster, 216; Marylebone, 103; Hampstead, 20;
Pancras, 88; Islington, 91; Hackney, 47; St. Giles, 185;
Strand, 78; Clerkenwell, 185; London City, 70; Shoreditch,