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of these unions are still used for registration purposes,
I have thought it best to retain the old
primary divisions, in order that comparison may be
made of the present sanitary state of the City with
the past; and with the view of correcting the number
of the population of these districts, as determined
by the Registrar General in the census of
April last, I have excluded from the St. Sepulchre
sub-district of the western division of the City the
518 patients of St. Bartholomew's Hospital, who
were not citizens, and I have brought into the City,
and distributed proportionally, the 2,390 persons
who were in the City workhouses and schools at the
time of the census. In this manner I have estimated
the number of the resident or night population of
the City at 76,604; and of this number 27,883
belong to the eastern division, 18,815 to the western,
and 29,906 to the City proper, or central division.
Looking at the second table of the appendix, it
will be seen that among this population there were
1,268 marriages, 1,854 births, and 1,762 deaths,
during the year which has expired. The average
number for the corresponding periods of the last ten
years being 1,451, 2,579, and 2,502 respectively.
It appears, therefore, that notwithstanding the large
decrease of the City population since the census of
1861, as from 112,063 to 74,732 (according to the