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Magdalen District. The houses are not really
more crowded together, but a much smaller proportion
of the entire area is occupied by extensive
business premises. The death rate in this portion
of the Parish was 17.3; the zymotic death rate
2.8, and the infantile death rate 138. Whatever
increase takes place in the population of the Parish
is almost exclusively confined to this division.
The natural increase of the population, or the
excess of births over deaths, was 1650, or 1.7 per
cent, the estimated increase does not exceed 0.7 per
cent, and therefore the number of inhabitants,
calculated to the middle of the year, is computed
to be 89,918.
BIRTHS.
The number of Births registered in the Parish
during the year was 3348, being 122 more than in
the previous year, and 171 less than the average of
the preceding two years. The male children
numbered 1706, and the female, 1642. The
number of births in each week averaged 64. The
annual birth rate was 37.2 per thousand of the
estimated population being an advance of 1.1
above the birth rate in 1885. The birth rate in
London was 32.3 being 0.3 lower than in 1885, and
the lowest rate on record since 1850 when the rate
was 32.0. In 1876 the birth rate in London was
35.9, and from that date it has fallen continuously.
In the Leather Market District there were 633
births; in St Mary Magdalen District 626; and in
the St. James's District 2089. Compared with the
previous year there is an increase in the number
of births in each of the three Districts.