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DEATHS.
The total deaths were 1796 : —males 878 ; females
918. They were 187 below the number in the previous
year and 314 below the number registered in 1878.
The weekly average was 34.5. One death occurred to
every 48 persons living. The annual rate of mortality
was 20.8 per thousand of the population. The death
rate in London was 22.2 per thousand. In males the
death rate is generally in excess of that of females, In
London the former was 24.3 and the latter 20.2 In
Bermondsey the rate was highest in femaleS. The
greater number of deaths of females is unusual, as the
proponderance of the fair sex in our parish is less than
the average, and the proportion has been steadily
diminishing during the last 80 years, until the difference
has become less than one percent. In the first quarter
of the year there were 574 deaths ; in the second, 354;
in the third, 442; and in the last, 426. The number
of persons who died in the Leather Market District was
372 ; in St. Mary Magdalen, .427 ; and in St. James's
997. There were 129 deaths in the Workhouse, of
which 94 were of parishioners. The 35 non-parishioners
are included in the total deaths and in the death
rate. The exclusion of these would lower our rate by
0.4. A certain, but unknown, number of our parishioners
died in the general hospitals. Our proportion of