168 REPORT—1862. 
union at the close of the last year is shown. The other columns exhibit the ratio 
at the end of each of the six months ended with June 1860 and 1861. By these 
means the amount and the velocity of the increase are both traceable. In the seven 
unions of Table I.*, the ratio per cent. of paupers to population in the last week of 
1860 was 2:2; in the last ae of 1861 it was 2°7. By the last week of March in 
the current year it had risen to 3:3, or 0’6 in the three months. By June it was 3°5, 
or 0:2 per cent, more. ne eee 
ABSTRACT OF TABLET, (Section A.) ......... 
8, This section exhibits the least increase in the pauperism of the district, and that 
increase took place gradually. Consulting the Registrar-General’s quarterly reports 
of mortality, we find, on comparing the March quarter 1862 with the average of 
the corresponding quarters of the three previous years, that there was an increase 
of 604 deaths, or 11'8 per cent., and in the June quarter 354 deaths, or 7-9 per cent. 
It will be noted from the account which follows that the rate of mortality has not 
any apparent relation to the increase of pauperism in these unions. In Bury, one 
of the deast pauperized of the group, the increase of mortality was very great. In 
Macclesfield, the most pauperized of this section, there was a positive decrease. 
Difference per cent. in number of Deaths in 1862. 
Unions. March Quarter. June Quarter. 
Boltone? yes hoes od — 18 + 58 
LEU eid Fat OOM IORI: © ; +22:9 +144 
Chorlion-s insect cs + 97 + 87 
Macclesfield........:. — 02 — 85 
Oldivani- + 2h ee see ie +19-7 + 67 
PAMOR soxik ce eae +215 +165 
WEES lie Sho? Po eregernae +12°7 + 67 
The unions of Salford, Bury, and Oldham experienced the highest mortality. 
Comparing the deaths in the Salford union in the March and June quarters of 1862 
with the numbers returned for the corresponding quarters of 1861, it will be found 
that the increase was 186 and 157 respectively, or 29-4 and 28-3 per cent. The rate 
at which the pauperism of any locality has been recruited, rather than the height 
to which it has attained, gives a more correct notion of the distress and consequent 
suffering. To this end the unions in the next statement are classed according to 
the rate of increase of pauperism as measured on every 100 of the population. The 
union marked by the ighieat rate of increase between December 1861 and Mid- 
summer 1862 is placed first. Against each union the percentage increase or de- 
crease of mortality is placed, in respect of the half-year ended with June last, and 
compared with the average of the three previous Midsummer half-years. 
Unions. Increase per cent. Difference per cent. in 
of Paupers. number of Deaths. 
malfOrd) «veleieiee eR ORE!) +191 
lai iegoe nc Cig halls +19-0 
Macclesfield ....... Pipe; + 42 
OCTETS cscs saseste eke 3A lee +136 
SOMO ree te iss, o: 8.0 eyes 5 1-0 + 16 
Clini ators 6 1:0 + 93 
VIG cca > © sok by llsy, +101 
ABSTRACT OF TaBLE II. (Section B.) 
9. In the five unions of Table II. the ratio of paupers at the end of 1860 was 2-4 
per cent.; at the end of 1861 it was36 By the last week of March 1862 it had 
risen to 5:0, or 1:4 per cent. in the three months. In June it was 5°6, or 0°6 per cent. 
increase in that quarter. Here similar diversities in the rate of mortality are ob- 
servable. In the Burnley union, where the pauperism is moderate, and in Man- 
chester, where it is high, the increase in the rate of mortality is very great, and 
nearly equal, 
* The Tables referred to by Roman figures were in the Appendix to Mr. Purdy’s paper 
abstracts therefrom are printed above. : 
