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mate children were 205; males 95, and females 110. Of these
births 191 were registered in the Town sub-district, which
includes the parish workhouse, at which institution out of 118
births (males 56, females 62) 90 were illegitimate. In the
parish generally, the illegitimate births formed 5.8 per cent, of
total births, as against 4.8 and 4.2 in 1883 and 1884 respectively.

For particulars respecting annual number of births and birth
rates in the decennial period, 1875-84, see Tables I. and II.,
Appendix.
DEATHS AND DEATH RATE.
The deaths registered in 1885, inclusive of 194 at outlying
public institutions, but exclusive of deaths of non-parishioners at
intra-parochial public institutions, were 2,768, or 286 below the
decennial average corrected for increase of population : 2,212
of the deaths belong to the Town sub-district, and 556 to the
Brompton sub-district. The death rate, whole parish, was 16.1
per 1,000, compared with 16.2, 15.5, and 15.1 in the three
preceding years; being 1.5 below the decennial average and 3.5
below the London rate (19.6) ; this, moreover, being 2.4 below
the average and the lowest on record. It was 2'9 below the rate
in England and Wales (19.0); this being 0.1 above the rate
in 1881, the lowest on record. The rate in the Town sub-district
was 17'4, and in Brompton 12-4, as against 16.4 and 12'8 in
1884. The rate in the male sex was 19.2, and in the female sex
140 per 1,000, as against 18'3, and 13'6 in 1884. There was
one death to every 62.1 inhabitants, as against one to 64'4 in