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of this total 398 were deaths within the district of non-parishioners
who died in the various hospitals and institutions. The number of
parishioners who died in Hampstead was 864, and to these we must add
the deaths of 62 parishioners who died in institutions outside our parish,
making a complete total of 926.
The annual death rate will be equal to a ratio of 11.2, being
slightly lower than that for the preceding year, which was equivalent
to 11.4.
The death rate for London corresponds to a rate of 19.8 per 1,000
of population, the average death rate in the previous ten years having
been 19.6.
Mortality at different Ages.—The deaths of children under one year
of age were 206, or equal to 22 per cent, on total deaths of parishioners
and to 13 per cent, on total births. At 65 and upwards there were 268
deaths, and of these, 109 reached ages between 70 years and 80, the
proportion being 44 males to 65 females; between 80 and 90 years
there were 28 deaths, viz., 13 males and 35 females, and 7 attained
90 years and upwards; the two greatest ages recorded being those
of widows, aged 94 and 99 respectively.