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Comparing these figures with the results of former years (and taking the
rate per ten thousand to avoid fractions) we have the following

In the year 1863, the three sub-districts were in their usual order, viz:
Bloomsbury healthiest, next St. Giles' North, while the largest mortality falls
on St. Giles' South. None of the sub-districts differed strikingly from its
average of former years, hut a slight decline in the mortality of Bloomsbury
from 1862 is to be observed.
In this place it is customary to give the registered Births of each year.
The Registrar General comments upon the increased vigilance of local registrars
throughout the metropolis, in getting information of all the births that
occur. Perhaps this cause may have operated to increase the numbers in St.
Giles's. But it is certain that any such vigilance is an inadequate substitute
for a proper system of compulsory registration, such as exists in Scotland
and Ireland and in most Continental countries.