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CAM 2
Camberwell, London.
PUBLIC HEALTH DEPARTMENT.
Vestry Hall
1894-95
MEDICAL OFFICER'S ANNUAL
REPORT.
Ladies and Gentlemen,
According to the Registrar-General's Annual Summary,
the population of London, estimated from the middle
of the year 1894 (the population, therefore, used in the
determination of the metropolitan marriage-rate, birthrate,
and death-rate) was 4,349,166. The marriages
numbered 36,902; the births 130,553; and the deaths
77,039.
The marriage-rate was 17·0 per thousand, being
lower by 0·2 than that of the previous year; the birth-rate
was 30·1 per thousand, being lower by 0·9 than that of 1893.
This rate is lower than that of any previous year. The
death-rate was 17·8, this rate was lower by 2·6 than the
average rate in the previous ten years.
Table I. shews the population of London and of its
five groups of districts, as ascertained at the censuses of
1881 and 1891 respectively.
Table I.—Populations of London and of its Groups of Districts
at Censuses of 1881 and 1891.
London.
West D.
North D.
Central D.
East D.
South D.
1881
3,816,483
669,633
905,947
282,238
692,738
1,265,927
1891
4,211,056
740,725
994,207
247,140
705,012
1,523,692