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Appendix I. to Annual Report.
1896.
Medical Officer's Report.
LADIES AND GENTLEMENT,
During the fifty-three weeks ending January 2nd, 1897,
the total number of births registered in London amounted to
135,796, and the deaths to 83,511.
The estimated population amounted in the middle of
1896 to 4,421,955 persons, and the birth-rate, marriage-rate
and death-rate for London as a whole are respectively calculated
for this number.
The birth-rate was 30.2 per thousand; compared with
30.5 for 1895, and the rate for the present year is the lowest
on record, with the exception of 1894, when it was 30.1 per
thousand.
The marriage-rate was 18 per thousand, compared with
17.1 for 1895, and 17 for 1894.
The death-rate at all ages for 1896 was 18.6 per
thousand of the population. The calculation is, however, made
from 83,511, the total number of deaths given above, in which
are included the deaths occurring in London of persons who
are ascertained to be strangers ; if these be excluded the deathrate
for London would be reduced to 18.2, compared with 19.8
for 1895, and 17.4 for 1894. The average for the previous ten
years is 20.1 per thousand.
Below are shown the births and deaths, together with
the birth-rats and death-rate for the whole of London, arranged
in tabular form, with the corresponding figures for the five
sub-districts, the deaths of Londoners who died in institutions
outside its boundary being included.