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males, and 2,195,187 females. The Registrar
General estimates that 66,132 persons were added
to the number of the inhabitants of the Metropolis,
51,424 by excess of registered births over deaths,
and 14,708 by immigration.
The marriages celebrated in London during the
year were 34,446, giving a proportion of 16 .6
persons married to each thousand of the population.
This is the lowest marriage rate as yet recorded
in London, the three next lowest being those
recorded in the three immediately preceding years
1883-4-5, in which the rates were successively 17.9,
17.6, and 16.9.
The registered births numbered 133,700, giving
the proportion of 32.3 births in the year to 1000
inhabitants. This was the lowest rate on record
since 1850, when the rate was 32 .0.
The deaths registered in the year numbered 82,276,
and corresponded to an annual rate of 19.9 per 1000.
With the exception of the previous year when the
rate was 19.8, this was the lowest rate recorded.
The deaths from Diarrhœal diseases were 720 in
excess of the year 1885. In all the other forms of
zymotic disease there was a considerable diminution
in the number of deaths. Tubercular diseases
and those of the Respiratory system were less fatal,
while there was an increase in the deaths from
diseases of the heart and Circulatory organs and
from diseases of the Urinary system.
The deaths per 1000 persons living in the five
great groups of Registration Districts, were: —
West Districts 17.7; North, 18.0; Central, 25.9;
East, 22.5; South, 19.2.