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DEATHS AND DEATH-RATE FOR 1893.
The total number of deaths registered in the parish was 2,125.
Of this total, 412 were deaths, within the district, of non-parishioners
—chiefly occurring in hospitals; and 245 deaths of parishioners of
Chelsea occurred outside the district. There were, therefore, 1,958
deaths of parishioners of Chelsea. These 1958 deaths are equivalent
to a death-rate for the year of 20.0 per 1,000. The death-rate of
all London for the year was 21.3 per 1,000.
The corrected death-rates of Chelsea and of London for the
past ten years are as under:—

The increased death-rates in 1890, 1891, and 1892, as compared
with 1888 and 1889, are attributable to the prevalence in each of the
later years of epidemic influenza, which caused a heavy mortality,
and largely increased the number of deaths amongst old people
from diseases of the respiratory organs.
The corrected death-rate of Kensal Town for 1893 was 14.8 per
1,000, as against 17.2 per 1,000 in 1892. The corrected death-rate
of the home district (Chelsea North and South) was 216 per 1,000,
as against 21.9 per 1,000 in 1892.
Zymotic death-rate.—The death-rate in Chelsea from the seven
principal zymotic diseases was 3.0 per 1,000 in 1893, as against 3.1
per 1,000 in London generally. In 1891, the zymotic death-rate in
Chelsea was only 20 per 1,000; in 1892 it was 3.1 per 1,000. The
increase in 1892 was largely due to the epidemic prevalence of
measles in the spring of that year, whilst the continuing high rate
in 1893 is due to larger mortalities from whooping cough, diarrhoea,
diphtheria, and enteric fever, than occurred in 1892, measles being
only slightly prevalent.