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He informs me that there is no moans of preparing these returns at
the same time as those for London Institutions, so that it would be
impossible to include them in my Monthly Reports; but they can be
made up from the "certified copies" which reach the Registrar
General's Office about a month after the conclusion of each quarter.
This would of course be in good time to enable me to include them in
my Annual Report if considered desirablo ; but at present my opinion
is, that with tho exception of small-pox deaths at Darenth, and on
the ships, they should not be so included; and for two reasons, the
first is that many of these persons have been for lengthened periods
residing in the asylums where they die, and their deaths can therefore
in no way be considered chargeable to the Sanitary condition of this
parish. The second reason is that the Registrar General himself does
not include them in calculating the returns for the Metropolis, and
until he does so, I have decided that I am not called upon to take any
notice of these deaths, as otherwise the mortality rates for this parish
and for London would not compare upon equal terms. I have had
some correspondence upon this subject with Mr. "Waters, he informs
mo that the Registrar General has not yet published any figures for
districts in which deaths under the above-mentioned conditions have
been distributed. Mr. Waters believes that such tables will be
published for the first time this year, and he hopes that the deaths in
out-lying Lunatic Asylums will be included to make the return
complete.
In the whole of the East group of registration districts only two
(Bethnal Green and Whitechapel) include in their Annual Reports tho
deaths of parishioners who die in institutions outside their respective
boundaries; so that it is unfair to compare our corrected mortality
with the uncorrected returns of such parishes as St. George's-in-theEast,
Mile End, Limehouse, &c.
This year our proportion of deaths as above was as previously
mentioned, 263; a number which raises our mortality from 20.8 to
22.8, and shews a difference against us of two per thousand between
the corrected and the uncorrected death rates.
BIRTHS.
The births during the year were 5,475, against 5,310 in the preceding
year.