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birth-rate than any which has been recorded during the last
eleven years. It is 5.5 above the London birth-rate, which
was 34.3 per thousand.
In the Leather Market District the births numbered 618;
in St. Mary Magdalen, 610; and in St. James's, 2257.
During the first quarter of the year 970 births were
registered; in the second quarter, 827; in the third quarter,
803; and in the fourth quarter, 885.
The excess of births over deaths was 1572 which is below
the average of the previous three years.
DEATHS.
The total number of deaths recorded was 1913, of which
976 were males and 937 were females. In the previous year
the deaths were 1735 and the average of the ten years, 1872-
81, was iB49. The annual rate mortality was 21.8 per thousand
of the estimated population. The male death-rate was 22.3,
and the female death-rate 21.4. In London the general
death-rate was 21.4 per thousand. Males, 23.1; females,
19.8.
Our death-rate among males is generally lower than that
of London, and our female death-rate is higher. This may
depend on a difference in the distribution of the population
with regard to age. In a working-class neighbourhood there
is a smaller proportion of female servants between 20 and 40
years of age, when the natural rate of mortality is considerably
below the mean rate at all ages. Where there is
not a sufficient demand for female labour, healthy young
women are obliged to seek employment elsewhere. This is
illustrated within the limits of our own parish. The Leather
Market District contains 98 females to 100 males; St. Mary
Magdalen District 99 to 100; and St. James's 101 females to
100 males. In England the proportion of females to males
is 105 to 100; but in London it is 112 to 100.
In the first quarter of the year 581 deaths were registered,
in the second quarter 502, in the third quarter 410, and in the
last quarter, 420.
The number of persons who died in the Leather Market
District was 362, in St. Mary Magdalen District 444, and in
St. James's 1107.