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6
Medical Officers of Health Annual Report.
The birth-rate was 26.01, compared with 25.17 in
1894. The mean rate for the last ten years was 28.22.
Though the rate is an increase on that of 1894, it was
with that exception lower than any in the past decade.
The birth-rate for London in 1895 was 30.5, which also,
with the exception of 1894, was the lowest on record.
The natural increment of the population, by excess of
births over deaths, was 2348, giving a rate of 11.53
per thousand living.
Deaths The total number was 2389, consisting of
1191 of males and 1198 of females, compared with 2155
in 1894. Of these 196 were of persons not properly
belonging to this district but who happened to die within
its borders in hospitals and institutions. They should be
excluded in calculating the death-rate, but 445 deaths of
parishioners that occurred in institutions without should be
included, bringing the total to 2638. The death-rate calculated
from this total was 14.48, without such correction
it was 13.11.