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Report of the Medical Officer of Health.
The birth-rate, as given on Table I. of the Local Government
Board's Table, is calculated on the uncorrected population and is
.56 lower than the rate calculated from the corrected population.
The birth-rate for the whole of London was 28.28 per 1,000
compared with 28.36 in 1902, and for England and Wales 28.36
per 1,000 compared with 28.6 in 1902.
The rate of natural increase, or the excess of births over
deaths was 14.54 per 1,000, or if the rates on Table I. of the
Local Government Board's Tables be used, 14.23, compared with
1185, the average for the last ten years.
Deaths.
During the year there were registered in the Borough 3,007
deaths, 1,480 of males and 1,527 of females, compared with 3,209
in 1902, 3,009 in 1901, and 3,142 in 1900.
The number during 1903 was 408 below the corrected
decennial average.
The uncorrected death-rate was 1169, compared with 12.84
in 1902, 12.82 in 1901, and 13.62 the average for the preceding
ten years.
To ascertain the corrected death-rate corrections must be
made to the above by the addition of the deaths in out-lying
institutions of persons belonging to the Borough, and the subtraction
of all deaths in public institutions in the Borough of
persons not belonging thereto, whose domicile was in other parts
of London.
The total number of deaths corrected both for external and
internal institutions was 3,073, compared with 3,304 in 1902, and
3,116 in 1901, and with 3,506, the average for the ten years preceding
corrected for increase of population.
During the year 443 deaths occurred in the public institutions
in the Borough of persons not belonging to the Borough and 29
in other places (as Nursing Homes, the River Thames), not public
institutions, making a total of 472, compared with 487 in 1902.
Table III. shows these deaths arranged according to subdistricts,
and Table IV. the deaths arranged according to causes
of death, sex, age, and institution in which the death occurred.