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Appendix 11. to Annual Report.
18978
Cumbrcell
Report of the Medical Officer of Health.
GENTLEMEN
During the fifty-two weeks ending January Ist, 1898,
the total number of births registered in London amounted to
133,618, and the deaths to 80,943. The birth-rate, marriagerate,
and death-rate are calculated from an estimated population
of 4,463,169.
The birth-rate was 30.0 per thousand of the population,
and was the lowest on record. It is .2 per 1,000 less than that
for 1896.
The marriages numbered 41,223, and the rate per
1,000 was 18 .5 which is the highest recorded since 1878.
The deaths as stated above numbered 80,943, and
corresponded to a rate of 18.2 per thousand, the average rate
in the previous 10 years having been 19.9. Included in the
above total are the deaths of Londoners who died in
Metropolitan Institutions outside London, and also those of
strangers who had been admitted into London hospitals and
infirmaries from districts outside the boundaries. If these be
excluded the death-rate of London as a whole will be reduced
to 17.7 per thousand.
Below are shown the births and deaths, together with
the birth-rate 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.