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shewing an increase of 22,217 in the ten years, or an
average of 2221 per year. The excess of births over
deaths in the ten years, 1871-1880, was 17,227 ; however
at the census of 1881, (unrevised figures) the
population was 86,562 shewing an increase of 6,133
only, or 613 per year. The population of the parish
at Midsummer 1880, should therefore be estimated at
86,102.
BIRTHS.
The number of registered births was 3,532, of
which 1794 were males and 1738 females. The proportion
of boys was 103 to 100 girls. The births
averaged nearly 68 per week. The birth rate for the
year was 41.0 per 1000 of the estimated population.
In London the birth rate was 36.2 per thousand In
the first quarter of the year there were 902 births; in
the second, 920, in the third, 827; and in the fourth,
883. The number of children born in the Leather
Market District was 574; in St. Mary Magdalen's 642;
and in St. James's, 2,316. The total births were 183
below the number registered in 1879, and 53 below
the average of the last ten years. The excess of births
over deaths was 1,736, which is equal to a natural
increase of 2 per cent, but as the number of births was
the same as the average of five years between 1870 and
1874, it is evident that the population at present is
almost stationary.