┌────────┬──────┬───────────┬────────┐ │Seasons.│Weeks.│ Whole │ Deaths │ │ │ │Metropolis.│ in the │ │ │ │ │ Four │ │ │ │ │Seasons │ │ │ │ │ out of │ │ │ │ │ 10,000 │ │ │ │ │Persons.│ ├────────┼──────┼───────────┼────────┤ │Winter │ 13 │ 14,548│ 78│ │Spring │ 13 │ 10,887│ 58│ │Summer │ 13 │ 10,045│ 54│ │Autumn │ 13 │ 10,752│ 57│ ├────────┼──────┼───────────┼────────┤ │ Totals │ 52 │ 46,232│ 247│ ├────────┴──────┼───────────┼────────┤ │Population │ 1,870,727│ │ │ enumerated, │ │ │ │ 1841. │ │ │ ├───────────────┼───────────┼────────┤ │Deaths out of │ 247│ │ │ 10,000 │ │ │ │ inhabitants │ │ │ │No. of │ 40,464│ │ │ Inhabitants │ │ │ │ out of which │ │ │ │ 1 death │ │ │ │ happened │ │ │ └───────────────┴───────────┴────────┘ The West District comprises Kensington, St. George, Hanover Square, Westminster, St. Martin-in-the-Fields, St. James. The North District comprises St. Marylebone, St. Pancras, Islington and Hackney. The Central District comprises St. Giles and St. George, Strand, Holborn, Clerkenwell, St. Luke, East London, West Loudon, City of London. The East District comprises Shoreditch, Bethnal Green, Whitechapel, St. George-in-the-East, Stepney, Poplar. The South District comprises St. Saviour’s, St. Olave, Bermondsey, St. George, Southwark, Newington, Lambeth, Camberwell, Rotherhithe, Greenwich. The female is most in the house; she is the most regular and temperate in her habits; the male is subject to the influence of his place of occupation—the operative to his workshop, the clerk to the counting-house, and the merchant to crowded places of business. In the following returns made up by _Mr. Farr_, and in others that will hereafter be cited, the mortality prevalent amongst the females is given separately, as probably indicating most correctly the operation of the noxious influences connected with the place of residence:— Mean Annual Mortality of Females in the following Metropolitan districts in the two Years and a half ending 31st December, 1839:—