East London . of working folk, suchas Bethnal Green or Spitalfields, how many names still sur-vive of the families who were baptized, married, and buriedat the parish church in the year 1800. The last would bean investigation of great and special interest, because noone, so. far, has attempted to ascertain the changes whichtake place in the rank and file of a London parish, and be-cause the people themselves keep no record of their origin,and the grandchildren, as a rule, neither ask nor seek toknow where their grandfathers were born; they care noth-ing for the rock from which they were digged
East London . of working folk, suchas Bethnal Green or Spitalfields, how many names still sur-vive of the families who were baptized, married, and buriedat the parish church in the year 1800. The last would bean investigation of great and special interest, because noone, so. far, has attempted to ascertain the changes whichtake place in the rank and file of a London parish, and be-cause the people themselves keep no record of their origin,and the grandchildren, as a rule, neither ask nor seek toknow where their grandfathers were born; they care noth-ing for the rock from which they were digged. Again I venture to borrow two or three simple figures 36 EAST LONDON from Mr. Booth. He tested a small colony called an Irishneighborhood; it consisted of i6o persons. I presume thathe means i6o heads of families; of these 57 were Londonersby birth; out of London, but in the United Kingdom, 88were born; the remaining 15 were foreigners by birth. Andout of 693 applicants for relief to the Charity Organization. Barge-Builders. Society in Mile End, Old Town, and St. Georges-in-the-East, 486, or seventy per cent., were Londoners by birth;207, or thirty per cent., were born out of London. It may be added that if we take the whole of London itis roughly estimated that 630 in the thousand of the popula-tion are natives of London, that 307 come from other partsof England and Wales, that 13 are Scotch, 21 Irish, 8 colo-nists, and 21 of foreign birth. This estimate may havebeen slightly altered by the recent influx of Russian Jews, THE CITY OF MANY CRAFTS Z7 but the difference made by a hundred thousand or so can-not be very great. The settlements of the ahen, especiallyin East London, will be considered in another , to one who lives in the suburbs of London—toone who considers the men of light and leading in London:its artists, men of letters, architects, physicians, lawyers, sur-geons, clergy, etc.—it seems at first sight as if no one wasborn in London. The City m
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