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31.4, and in Brompton 21 per 1,000. There was one birth to
every 34.6 persons living, and 102.2 births of males to 100 of
females. The illegitimate births were 186, 170 of them having
been registered in the Town sub-district, which includes the parish
workhouse, at which, out of 136 births, about 40 were illegitimate.
The illegitimate births in the parish formed nearly 4 per cent. of
total births.

Additional particulars respecting births, birth-rates, etc., for the
decennium, are contained in Tables 1 and 2, Appendix.
DEATHS AND DEATH-RATE.
The deaths in 1880 were 2,884, viz.: 2,854 registered in the
parish; Town sub-district, 2,258; Brompton, 596; and 30 in the
hospitals of the Metropolitan Asylum District. The total includes
99 of non-parishioners at the Brompton Consumption Hospital,
and 33 at St. Joseph's House, Notting Hill, retained in the statistics
to compensate for the deaths of parishioners that may have
taken place at hospitals and elsewhere outside the parish. The
deaths were fewer by 108 than in 1879, a year that included 53
weeks : they were also 175 below the corrected decennial average.
The death-rate of the entire parish was 18.0 per 1000; 1.1 per
1000 below the decennial rate; 4'2 per 1000 below the Metropolitan
rate; and 2.6 below the rate in England and Wales.
The rate in the sub-districts, after distribution of deaths in public
institutions, proportionately to population, was, Town, 21.1;