In certain streets the percentage was much higher. Thus in Paddington (1870-1):--
Woodchester Street 56 per cent. Cirencester " 65 " Clarendon " 72 "
The high infantile mortality betokened high infantile sickness, but of it no records have ever been kept.
[82] See P.P. 1866, vol. xvii. Report of Royal Commission.
[86] See P.P. 1863, vol. xxv. Report by H. S. Tremanheere to the Home Secretary, 1862.
[87] "In a bakehouse in St. Martin's Lane, eight men slept in one room (separated from the bakehouse) which had nothing that deserves the name of a window" (Report of Medical Officer of Health, 1864).
[88] P.P. 1864, vol. xxviii. Sixth Report of the Medical Officer of the Privy Council (1863).
[90] See Reports of the Commissioners on Children's Employment, 1864-6.
[95] P.P., vol. clxxxvi. Select Committee of House of Commons on Medical Local Government, 1866, p. 259.
[97] Report of Commissioners. P.P. 1864, vol. xxii. p. xlix.
[98] See P.P. 1874. Report of Select Committee on the Adulteration of Food, &c. Evidence of H. Owen.
[102] Select Committee on Metropolitan Local Government.
[103] See P.P. 1867-8, vol. lviii. Return of Inspectors of Nuisances, &c., 1866.
[104] Select Committee on Metropolitan Local Government, 1866.
[110] See Report of the Metropolitan Asylums Board for 1886-7.
[111] See the Edinburgh Review, January, 1903.
[114] Report of Select Committee on the working of the Artizans' and Labourers' Dwellings Improvement Act, 1882, p. iii.
IN 1871, the decennial Census once more afforded reliable information as to the population of London, and gave the means of ascertaining much else of the greatest value.
The population had gone up to 3,254,260 in 1871, from the 2,808,862 it had been in 1861, an increase of 445,398. But the rate of increase was declining. The decennial increase of population which had been 21·2 in 1841-1851, 18·7 in 1851-1861, had further declined to 16·1 in 1871.
The returns showed that London contained 2,055,576 persons born within its own limits, and 1,198,684 persons born outside its borders.
"Whence came these multitudes of both sexes, equal in themselves, without counting those born there, to a number greater than the inhabitants of any other European city?"