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aged, and Convulsions in young children. The
latter disease caused 63 deaths, all of which
occurred in children under 5 years of age.
The deaths certified as due to old age numbered
103, and those attributed to premature birth 42.
The other causes of death included 72 from
diseases of the Digestive Organs, 19 from Renal
Diseases, and 9 from Diseases of the Bones and
Joints.
Eighty inquests were held, being in the proportion
of 5 per cent. Twenty-six deaths were
attributed to violent causes; thirty-one deaths, or
nearly 2 per cent, were uncertified.
STATISTICS OF LONDON.
The estimated population at the middle of the
year was 4,083,928 persons, of whom 1,923,447
were males, and 2,160,481 females.
The marriages celebrated in London in 1885
numbered 34,573 giving a proportion of 16.9
persons married, to one thousand inhabitants.
This was the lowest marriage-rate as yet recorded
in London.
The registered births numbered 132,506, and
corresponded to an annual rate of per
thousand inhabitants. This was the lowest rate
on record since 1850, when the rate was 32.0.
The excess of births over deaths was 52,506, or
about 1,000 a week.
The deaths were exactly 80,000, shewing an
annual rate of 19.7 per thousand living. This is
the lowest rate on record in London.
The outbreak of small-pox that commenced
towards the end of the first quarter of 1884, lasted
to the middle of the third quarter of 1885.
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