No. 215 - THE PENNY MAGAZINE - Aug. 8, 1835

Decrease of Population, and Mortality in "London within the Walls."--In the beginning of the last century the population of London within the Walls was not much less than 140,000, as proved by deduction from the Parish Registers; and the annual mortality was as one to twenty of that population. In the year 1750, the population had decreased to 87,000; and fortunately for the health of the citizens, space continues to become more and more valuable for counting-houses and warehouses than for human habitation, so that the population of the city within the walls became 78,000 in the year 1801, and is now diminished to 55,778, the rate of mortality being now less than one in forty.--Appendix to Parish Register Abstract for 1831.