+---------------------+----------------------------------------------+ | | CITY OF LONDON UNION, | |Population,}Entire | | |according }City of | | |to the }London, | 56,726. | |Census }129,922. +-------+-------+-------+-------+-------+------+ |of 1851. } | S. W. | N. W. | South,| S. E. | N. E. | Work-| | | | | | | |house,| | | 9,204.|11,847.|11,461.|10,594.|12,826.| 794. | +---------------------+-------+-------+-------+-------+-------+------+ |Mortality of five | | | | | | | |years from Michaelmas| | | | | | | |1848 toMichaelmas | | | | | | | |1853. | | | | | | | | { 1848-9 =3763= | 293| 245| 263| 214| 262| 103| | { 1849-50 =2752= | 176| 168| 218| 183| 219| 101| | { 1850-1 =2978= | 191| 169| 258| 217| 213| 101| | { 1851-2 =3064= | 196| 198| 203| 171| 235| 117| | { 1852-3 =3040= | 170| 188| 223| 164| 224| 104| | { +-------+-------+-------+-------+-------+------+ | { =⁂= | 1026| 968| 1165| 949| 1153| 526| | { | | | { Total =15,597= | =5787= | +---------------------+----------------------------------------------+ |Yearly Death-rate | =20.40= | |_per_ thousand of the| | |living Population. | | | | | | | | =24.00= |=23.83=|=17.96=|=21.90=|=19.52=|=19.58=| =*= | +-----------------------+-------+-------+-------+-------+-------+----+ |N.B. The first year’s total (3763) includes 15 deaths, which, by | |reason of their imperfect registration, it has been impossible | |to refer correctly to the Unions where they occurred. | +--------------------------------------------------------------------+
In calculating the Death-Rates given in the last lines of this Table, I have proceeded as follows:--
First, I have counted all _Workhouse-Population_ and _Workhouse-Deaths_ as forming part of the aggregate population and aggregate mortality of that Union to which the particular workhouse legally belongs.
Next, I have distributed among the several sub-districts the population and the mortality of their Union Workhouses, in the ratio of the general sub-district population; so as to prevent the high Workhouse-Mortality from telling unjustly against that sub-district in which the Workhouse happens to have been erected.
Thus, for instance, the East London Union has its male Workhouse placed in the territory of the West London Union; but I have reckoned it as belonging to the East London Union, in respect both of its population and its deaths. Similarly, the City of London Union has its Workhouse situate at Bow; but, not the less, I have considered its 794 inmates and 526 deaths as belonging to the population and the mortality of our central Union.