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1893-94.
MEDICAL OFFICER'S ANNUAL
REPORT.
Gentlemen,
According to the Registrar General's Annual Summary,
the population of London, estimated for the middle
of the year, 1893 (the population, therefore, used in the
determination of the metropolitan marriage-rate, birth-rate,
and death-rate), was 4,306,411. The marriages numbered
36,971; the births 132,975; and the deaths 91,536.
The marriage-rate was 17·2 per 1,000, being lower
by 2 than that of the previous year. The birth-rate was2 per 1,000, being lower
31.0 per 1,000. This rate is identical with that of the
previous year, which was the lowest rate recorded in London
in any previous year, with the single exception of 1890,
when the rate was 30·7. The death-rate was 21·3. This
rate was 1·2 per 1,000 in excess of the average rate in the
previous 5 years, having been raised considerably by the
mortality from diphtheria and influenza.
Table I. shews the populations of London and its five
groups of districts, as ascertained at the censuses of 1881
and 1891 respectively.