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REPORT — 1842. 



the 640 children were eight, or 1^ per cent., and there had been seven cases, or 

 something more than 1 per cent., of mutilation from machinery. 



On the Increase of Property in South Lancashire since the Revolution. 

 By Henry Ashworth. 



Mr. Ashworth commenced his observations by stating that they more particularly 

 related to the Hundred of Salford. The figures on which he proposed to found a 

 comparison of the past and present state of Lancashire were taken from a Parlia- 

 mentary return of the assessment for the Land-tax in 1692 and the authorized 

 statements of the county assessment for 1841. With respect to the progress of the 

 population he had no returns previous to 1801. 



In estimating the assessment value of property in 1692, he multiplied the gross 

 amount of the land-tax, which was then is. in the pound, by five, which he considered 

 a very close approximation to the real annual value of the property in the county at 

 that period. 



The following table, constructed by Mr. Ashworth from the above data, shows the 

 comparative increase in the several Hundreds of Lancashire. 



Showing an increase in the agricultural Hundreds of Lonsdale, Amounderness and 

 Leyland, of 3500 per cent., and in the three remaining Hundreds of 7000 per cent. 



The following table shows the increase in various Towns and Townships. 



Name of Places. 



£ *-. (/. 



Chorlton-on-Medlock .. 256 4 2 



Hulme 152 10 5 



Ardwick 175 



Salford 809 19 7 



Cheetham 215 18 4 



Manchester 4,025 



Heaton Norris 28115 



Broughton 230 6 8 



Pendleton 363 12 11 



Crumpsall 95 6 3 



Rusholme 146 13 4 



Moss Side 61 9 2 



Great Bolton 169 



Little Bolton 132 19 7 



Bun- 220 14 7 



Oldham 287 9 7 



Mavton 91 14 7 



Heap 265 14 7 



Kearsley 56 4 7 



Farmvorth 141 10 



Edgeworth 31 4 2 



Wardleworth 300 3 9 



Spotland 524 9 7 



Ashton-under-Lyne .... 1,345 



Value in 1692. 



Value in 1841. 



£ 



137,651 

 75,733 

 46,471 



162,847 

 38,933 



721,743 

 45,175 

 33,956 

 48,150 

 13,237 

 15,281 

 4,958 

 93,916 

 47,111 

 52,882 



107,500 

 16,200 

 41,652 

 9,035 

 17,071 

 4,116 

 39,456 

 58,796 



143,803 



Increase per cent. 



£ 

 53,000 

 49,000 

 26,500 

 20,100 

 18,100 

 17,900 

 16,000 

 14,700 

 13,200 

 13,000 

 10,400 

 8,100 

 54,388 

 35,690 

 24,000 

 37,400 

 17,800 

 15,700 

 16,400 

 12,700 

 13,200 

 13,100 

 11,200 

 10,600 



