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ANNUAL REPORT
OF THE
MEDICAL OFFICER OF HEALTH,
FOR 1894.
Section I.—STATISTICAL.
POPULATION OF CHELSEA.
The estimated population of Chelsea to the middle of the year
1894 is 99,052. The estimated population of each sub-district is
as follows:—
Chelsea North 41,303
Chelsea South 33,661
Kensal Town 24,088
BIRTHS AND BIRTH-RATE FOR 1894.
Table I. gives the births and birth-rate per 1,000 per annum in
each district of Chelsea, in the whole parish, and in London.

In 1891 the birth-rate of Chelsea was 291; in 1892 it was 287;
and in 1893 it was 29.2.
DEATHS AND DEATH-RATE FOR 1894.
The total number of deaths registered in the parish was 1,720.
Of this total 332 were deaths, within the district, of non-parishioners
—chiefly occurring in the hospitals in the parish; and 229 deaths
of parishioners of Chelsea occurred outside the district. There
were, therefore, 1,617 deaths of parishioners of Chelsea. These
1,617 deaths are equivalent to a death-rate for the year of 16.4 per
1,000. The death-rate of all London for the year was 17.8.
This death-rate of 16.4 per 1,000 is by far the lowest of any
recorded in Chelsea for the past 11 years, as is shown by the
following table, which gives the true corrected death-rates of
Chelsea and of London (not corrected for age and sex distribution).