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An account of the number of INHABITANTS of the Town of NOTTINGHAM, with the number of Houses and Families, distinguishing each street alphabetically, taken from Monday 20th, to Saturday the 25th of September inclusive, 1779.
The method adopted, and the rules that were observed in taking the following account :
No militia man or soldier was reckoned, but their families were numbered if they were housekeepers in the town.
If any part of a family were absent upon a visit or a journey they were counted, as were all children who boarded at schools, &c. in the town ; therefore no persons upon a visit here, nor children belonging to the town if boarded out of it for education, &c. were taken
Distinctions were made of houses, families and inhabitants in each parish, that a succinct account of each might be given.
The hospitals were not numbered amongst the houses, but the people were taken as inhabitants.
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Houses |
Families |
Souls |
Angel Row Barker Gate Bearward Lane Beast Market Hill Beck Lane Beck Lane Hospitals Beck Barn or Pottery Bedlam Court Bellar Gate Boot Lane, from Parliament Street, to the Joiner's-Arms, exclusive of Kayes's Buildings Bottle Lane Bowling Alley Hill Bridge End, see Hollow Stone Bridlesmith-gate and Rose Yard Broad Lane to St. John's Broad Marsh and Darker's-Court Byard Lane and Chappel's-Court Bilby's Hospital Butt Dyke, see Toller's Hill Blowbladder Street, see Mount Hall Gate Carter Lane Castle Gate Chandler's Lane Chappel Bar to Nix's Yard Cappel's Court, see Bryard Lane Cheapside Chesterfield Lane Coalpit Lane Cow Lane Cuskstool Row Cabbage Court Charlotte Street and three Salmon's Yard Collin's Hospital Drury Hill Darker's Court, see Broad Marsh Engine House and Neighbourhood Finkhill Street and Walnuttree Lane Fisher Gate Fletcher Gate Friar Lane or Mont Hall Lane Flint's Court, see Garner's Hill Gilliflower Hill and Rock Holes Goose Cate & Hockley to Parivicini's R. Greyfriar's Gate Griddlesmith Gate Greyhound Yard Glass House Lane to Charlotte Street Garner's Hill and Flint's Court High Pavement High Street Hockley, see Goose Gate Hound's Gate Hollow Stone, Bridge End and Malin Hill St. John's and Keywoth's Houses St James's Lane Jew Lane, see Spaniel Row Johnson's Court Kayes's Buildings in Boot Lane Long Row, From Nix's Yard to Cow Lane, including all the Yards, except Greyhound-Yard Low Pavement Leen Side Malin Hill, see Hollow Stone St. Mary's Church Side St. Mary's Gate Marsden's Court Middle Pavement Mount Hall Gate or Blowbladder Street Mount Lane or Middle Hill Milstone Lane to Beck Barn St. Mary's Workhouse Middle Marsh Narrow Marsh and Long Stairs, including all the Yards, &c. New Change and Shoe Booths St. Nicholas's Workhouse Parcivicini's Row, Owen' Court, &c. Peck Lane Pennyfoot Row, see Back Lane Pepper Street St. Peter's Workhouse St. Peter's Church Side St. Peter's Gate and Church Yard Pilcher Gate Parliment Street and Back Lane Plumptre's Hospital Queen Street Quaker Lane, see Spaniel Row Rosemary Lane Rockholes, &c. beyond Glass House Lane Rockholes, Gilliflower Hill, see Gilliflower Hill Spring Gardens, including all the New Hoses South of St. Ann Street, and East of Glass House Lane Shambles, see Smithy Row Sheep Lane Short Hill Smithy Row and Shambles Spaniel Row Stephen's Court, see Leen Side Stoney Street Stoney Street Hospital Swine Green Timber Hill Trent Bridge Turn Calf Alley Toller's Hill and But Dyke Tabernacle Alley, including all the Houses at the Back of Boot Lane, from Parliment Street to Charlotte Street. Walnut-tree Lane, see Finkhill Street Warser Gate Wheeler Gate Woolpack Lane White Rents in Houndsgate Total Number Brewhouse Yard, an Extra Parochial Place |
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23 |
139 |
A division of the number of Houses, Families and Inhabitants in each Parish :
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Houses |
Families |
Souls |
St. Mary's Parish |
2314 |
2584 |
12657 |
An account of the Burials for seven Years, from 1772 to 1778, inclusive : |
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St. Mary's |
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2315 |
Houses that are now uninhabited in this town |
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St. Mary's Parish |
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57 |
The inhabited houses contain as near as possible; five and a half upon the average to each house.
If we divide the number of inhabitants by the annual average number of burials, we shall discover that it will require about thirty-one years and ten months to bury a number equal to that of the whole town, consequently nearly one in thirty-two of the inhabitants die annually. We shall also find that by ascertaining the number of people and burials, the comparative healthfulness of places may be determined ; making proper allowance for those who die in their infancy, and for the extraordinary increase or decrease of the people by acquisition or emigration. This comparison has not been made in many places in England, because the mistaken apprehension of new taxes, and other reasons, make people jealous of being enumerated:- It his however with pleasure we declare, that we found very few such groundless fears to prevail here ; but on the contrary, the generality of the people gave their numbers with great good nature and chearfulness.
It appears that in a very healthful, called Holy Cross, adjoining to Shrewsbury, one in thirty-three die annually, through Shrewsbury and Northampton one in twenty-seven, and in London one in twenty-one ; but with respect to London, the computation has been made only from the number of houses. In many places of Europe, regular accounts are annually taken, from which we find at Vienna one in twenty die every year ; at Berlin one in twenty-six, but this number would be smaller only for an extra encrease of people of late years ; at a county parish in Bradenburgh one in forty-five ; and the same in those healthful villages of the Pais de Vaud near Geneva ; but this high number may proceed from the emigration of the natives, of which Dr. Tissot, in the Introduction to his Advice to the People, very much complains . We must not conclude that because this number is twice that of London, therefore the chance of life to adults is two to one against London ; it is only so in the new born infant ; hence the necessity in these calculations of always taking into consideration the number of infants that are annually buried - At Vienna half the number of inhabitants die before they are two years of age ; at Berlin two and three quarters, at London three, at Northampton six, at Holy Cross twenty-seven, and in the Pais de Vaud forty-one.
From a comparison of the foregoing premises, it is with peculiar satisfaction that we conclude that Nottingham to be a very healthy situation, for we nearly come up to the standard of Holy Cross, and should certainly exceed it, if it was not for the numbers that die here in their infancy ; where poor people are forced to neglect their offspring to procure a subsistence, it is no wonder if half of those who are born die young. Dr. Deering in his Antiquties of Nottingham, page seventy-eight, gives us 2331 for the burials in seven years ; of which 1072 were infants. Near half therefore die in their infancy, which cannot be the case in Holy Cross, where half that are born live to the age of twenty-seven. - The doctor in the year 1739. enumerated the inhabitants of this place, and making a proportionate allowance for some omissions and deficiencies in his account, it appears that there were at that time about 10720 souls in this town ; taking also his annual average of burials for seven years, by which if we divide the number of inhabitants, it will apear that nearly thirty-two years was then the requisite time to bury the whole number of the people. This similarity at forty years distance with the present statement, most certainly removes the suspicion of inaccuracy in both accounts. We are aware that the judicious may possibly observe that the very great additional number of people since Dr. Deering's account, will of course operate here as it did at Berlin, and make this place also appear more healthful than it really is, and as such would certainly be the case, if during the time that we have given the state of the burials, there had not been a very unusual drain of the inhabitants into the army and militia, which we conceive fully counter-balances the increases.
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