English Total Average Square Number of Age of Area in Square Feet. Deaths. Grave. Square Feet. Feet. 1. Adults. 54·72 × 568 × 10 = 310,810 2. Youths. 27·36 × 31 × 8 = 6,785 3. Children. 22·80 × 524 × 7 = 83,639 ————— ——————— 1,123 401,234 39·07 ————— ——————— ————— Rate of deaths per 35,000 in the Herefordshire Unions in 1839: English Total Average Square Number of Age of Area in Square Feet. Deaths. Grave. Square Feet. Feet. 1. Adults. 54·72 × 382 × 10 = 209,030 2. Youths. 27·36 × 16 × 8 = 3,502 3. Children. 22·80 × 164 × 7 = 26,174 ——— ——————— 562 238,706 44·62 ——— ——————— ————— This gives for a rural population 976 graves per acre. For a town population 1,117 graves per acre. But in consequence of the smaller proportion of children dying in the rural district, a larger space is requisite than would appear from a comparative number of the interments if the graves were of the same size. The average size of the different graves may be taken as an epitome of the strength of the same numbers of the two populations: that of the town grave being in round numbers 39 feet, while the rural grave is 44 feet. Nevertheless, the extent of land requisite for cemetery, on a decennial period of renewal, for a population of 20,000 in a rural district would be only 4–4/10 acres, whilst for 20,000 of such a town population as that of Whitechapel, it would be 7–4/10 acres.