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45 at the French Hospital, Shaftesbury Avenue; and 4 at
other public places situated within the District.
The deaths of parishioners at the Workhouse, which were
registered in South St.' Giles, are distributed among the subdistricts
according to the previous residence of the deceased
persons. These alterations increase the number of deaths to
1,092. The results of the corrections will be seen in the
table above.
The death-rate for the whole of St. Giles District, 27.4 per
1.000, was 6.0 higher than the rate for all London, and 7.2
higher than that for all England and Wales.
The death-rate for the parish of St. Giles-in-the-Fields
was 33'9 per 1,000, a rate 15.5 per 1,000 higher than that
for Bloomsbury.
There was again the same disproportions in the two
divisions of the parish of St. Giles-in-the-Fields, the rate
for the southern part being 12.7 per 1,000 higher than that
of the northern.
As a set off to the high death-rate in St. Giles South, it
must not be forgotten that the birth-rate for the same part
of the parish was as high as 39.6 per 1,000.
In London the deaths were 90,216, corresponding to an
annual death-rate of 21.4 per 1,000, the same as the rate in
the immediately preceding year, but with this exception, the
rate in 1891 was higher than in any year since 1882.
In England and Wales, 587,666 deaths were registered,
giving a death-rate of 20.2 per 1,000, which is lower than
the rate recorded in any year prior to 1881.
Deaths of Young Children,
352 children died before they reached 5 years of age,
being two above the decennial average 1881-90.