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—one death to 48 male persons living; and only 1,268 females out
of 89,000 = 1 death to 70 living. Compared with 1876 the reduction
in the number of deaths of males and females respectively is 197
and 141. After making the necessary corrections, viz, by apportioning
the proper number of the deaths at public institutions to
each of the sub-districts in proportion to their population, it
would appear that while the deaths actually registered in the
whole parish were equivalent to a rate of 16'9 per 1,000,
the rate in the Town sub-district was 17 6, and in Brompton
only 13.4 per 1,000. The death-rate in the male sex was
21.5 per 1,000, the rate in the female sex being one-third
lower, viz, 14.2 per 1,000. It is important to notice that
the relative rates of mortality in the sexes were almost identical
in 1871, the census year, viz., males 22.3 and females
15.7 per 1,000; and this fact—the then population being known
—points to the probability of the accuracy of my estimate of the
relative number of the sexes living at the middle of 1877. The
sex death rate in the whole Metropolis was males, 24.2;
females, 199. The deaths of children under one year of age
were only 648 instead of 771 as in 1876, and the deaths under
five years of age only 1,040, a reduction of 265 as compared with
the previous year. The deaths under 1 year and under 5 years
respectively, were equal to 25.3 and 40.8 per cent. on total
deaths, and to 13.9 and 22.3 per cent. on the registered births. The
deaths at 60 years of age and upwards were 596, or 23.8 per
cent. on the total deaths. For the sake of comparison it may be
mentioned that in the Metropolis generally the deaths under 1
and under 5 years respectively were equal to 24 and 41.3 per cent. on
total deaths, and to 14.6 and 242 per cent. on the registered births;
while the deaths at 60 and upwards were equal to 20.5 per cent.
on all deaths.
The deaths of illegitimate children under five years were 98 (88
in the Town sub-district, and 10 in Brompton), equal to 3.7
per cent. on total deaths, and to 5T2 per cent. on the registered
illegitimate births.