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rate of 13.01 per 1000 persons living, or 1 death in 77.
These figures are almost unprecedented, even in similarly
favoured districts; and a comparison with the death-rates
of the towns and districts, as given in the RegistrarGeneral's
Summary for the year 1876, will fail to discover
their equals. The death-rate of the whole of London was
22.3; that of 23 of the principal towns of the United
Kingdom was 23.7 ; and that of other 50 large towns 21.9
per 1000. In a Table given on page 71 will be found the
death-rate in this District for the last eleven years, and it
will be seen that the death-rate of the past year has never
been attained before. I think the inhabitants of this Subdistrict
may be fairly congratulated on this encouraging
fact, and may justly consider this one of the very healthiest
parishes in all the five groups of Metropohtan Districts.
Births and Birth-rate.—During the year 1876 300
births were registered, of which 158 were of males and
142 of females. The birth-rate is 27.3 per 1000, or 1 in
36. The excess of births over deaths was 1.57, and the
rate of natural increase 14-3 per 1000.

Both births and deaths were most numerous in the first