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Bethnal Green, the death rate for the same period was 27 per 1000, or
1 person died of every 36.7 living, I death in 3.5 being from Zymotic
disease.
The death rate in the different Registration Sub-Divisions was as
follows:—"Hackney Road," with 7.3 persons to each house, 1 died of
every 43.7 living, or at the rate of 229 per 1000; in the "Church,"
with 7 persons per house, 1 of every 51.7 living, or at the rate of 19.3
per 1000; in the "Town," with 8.3 per house, 1 in every 45.5, or 21.9
per 1000; and in the "Green," with 7.6 per house, 1 person died of
every 47 living, or at the rate of 21.2 per 1000.
This is exclusive of the 271 deaths which took place in the Workhouse,
54 in the Hospital for Consumption and Diseases of the Chest, and 38 in
Bethnall House Lunatic Asylum; due allowance is made, however, for
the inmates of these Institutions.
"We cannot apportion to the general death rate of the "Green" (in
which these Institutions are situated), the deaths which took place in
those establishments; for if we were to do so, it would appear that
1 person died of every 34.5 living, or at the rate of 28.9 per 1000, thus
making the death rate of the "Green" seem much higher than it really
is. Of course the deaths in Public Institutions form part of the 2894,
which was the total number of deaths which took place in the Parish
during the past year, and which form the basis of all the calculations as
to our death rate.
BIRTH RATE.
While the death rate was low, the birth rate was high—5196 births
having been registered during the year: this gives 2302 as excess cf
births over deaths.
The births registered in Bethnal Green during the year were 2641
boys, and 2555 girls: this gives 1 birth to every 23.1 persons living, or
a natural increase at the rate of 43.4 per 1000. The rate for the whole
of London during the same period was 35.3 per 1000, our birth rate
considerably exceeding that of the average of the whole Metropolis.
The birth rate in the different Registration Sub-Districts was, in the
"Hackney Road," 1 to every 22 persons living, or 45.4 per 1000; the
" Church," 1 to 24.8 persons living, or 40.3 per 1000; the "Town," 1