Anterior to the year 1750, this comparison is not perfect, eleven parishes having been brought into the bills of mortality, between the years 1726 and 1745. The number of unregistered interments in the Metropolis, has been a question much agitated, on occasion of forming computations for life annuities, and for other purposes. In the last six months of 1794, it was ascertained by the collector of the then tax on burials, that 3,148 persons were interred without being registered; and it is not likely that the whole number of interments, or even of burial grounds, were discoverable for the purpose of taxation. If it be assumed that, on account of the unregistered interments, a third part (about 7000 annually) may be added to the registered burials, the mortality of the Metropolis, in 1700, was one in twenty-five; in 1750, one in twenty-one ; in 1801, (and the four preceding years) one in thirty-five; since that, only one in thirty-eight; thus shewing a gradual improvement in the health of the Metropolis, to a large amount; but it was to be expected that the extension of population over a larger space than formerly would have this salutary effect. 5. A few parishes, now forming part of the Metropolis, have not yet been brought into the bills of mortality. The rapid increase of the 1 population of this district since the beginning of the last century, shews how rapidly the Metropolis increases in extent, although its population has not increased so fast as that of the kingdom in general. In 1700, the Metropolis contained almost an eighth part of the inhabitants of England and Wales; in 1750, above a tenth part, and at present rather less than that proportion. 6.-Objections may undoubtedly be made to the propriety of the limits of the Metropolis herein assumed; it may therefore be right to add, that the total population of all the parishes whose churches are within a circle extending eight miles around St. Paul's Cathedral, (including the aforesaid addition of one twenty-fifth part) amounts to one million two hundred and twenty thousand. The population ascribed to the City of Paris, is included in a district of this size. 9,509 12,171 11,784 10,772 10,230. 10,483 1801 10,327 10,447 20,774 11,219 11,154 22,373 1802 11,806 11,552 23,358 11,720 11,385 23,105 1803 12,191 12,247 24,438 11,858 11,185 23,043 1804 12,518 12,249 24,767 10,083| 9,568 19,651 1805 12,055 12,020 24,075 10,744 10,284 21,028 1806 12,456 12,231 24,687|| 10,204 9,917 20,121 1807 12,262 12,292 24,554|| 11,420 11,121 22,541 10,897 1808 12,391 11,989 24,380|| 12,202 12,501 24,703|| 10,988 1809 12,686 12,740 25,426 10,578 9,852 20,430 11,216 1810 12,453 12,218 24,671|| 12,424 12,228 24,652 11,725 Totals 21, 145 119,985 241,130 112,452 109,195 221,647|| 109,774 This summary of the METROPOLIS is collected from the registers of 86 parishes, within the walls of the City of London; from 12 parishes without the walls; from 29 out-parishes; and from 5 other parishes not included within the bills of mortality; (namely Chelsea, R.; Kensington, V.; St. Mary-le-bone, C.; Paddington, C.; and Pancras, V.) in all, from 132 parishes: and it is believed that no return whatever remains due. Several of the returns mention unentered baptisms, burials, and marriages, to the following amount, viz.: Annual average number of unentered baptisms, 1,345; burials, 5,753; marriages, 27. different Periods in the 18th and 19th Centuries. 6.7. 5. Area in Divisional One > Number Number entire 1811. to 1811. Persons. Persons. Persons. |