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The annual birth rate per thousand of the estimated
population in the Leather Market District was 42.7; in
St. James' District 35.5; and for the entire Parish 37.9.
The birth rate in London was 30.5, being a low
rate, bat slightly exceeding that of the previous year.
DEATHS.
The deaths from all causes recorded in Bermondsey
numbered 1,464, and those of parishioners in
outlying institutions 405, making a total of 1,869.
In the previous year the total deaths were 1,734,
of which 1,305 took place in Bermondsey and 429
in hospitals.
The total number of deaths in 1893 was 2,004.
In the Leather Market District 567 deaths were
registered, and in St. James' 897. In the first and
last quarters the mortality exceeded, and in the
second and third quarters fell below the mean of the
corresponding quarters in the three preceeding years.
The death rate, calculated on the deaths which
took place in the Parish was 17.3, and on the deaths
of parishioners which occurred in hospitals, asylums,
and infirmaries outside the parish boundaries, 4.8,
making the total death rate 22.1. The death rate in
London was 19.8 per thousand of the population.
In the previous year it was 17.8.