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The birth-rate in London was 30.2, being rather
lower than in 1895, when the rate was 30.5.
DEATHS.
The deaths from all causes recorded in
Bermondsey numbered 1,449, and of parishioners
in out-lying Public Institutions 424, making a
total of 1,873. In the previous year the total
deaths were 1,869; in 1894, 1,734; and in 1893,
2,004. The deaths registered in the Leather
Market District were 567, and in St. James', 897.
In the first quarter of the year there were 393
deaths; in the second quarter, 368; in the third
quarter, 341; and in the last quarter, 347. The
annual death-rate per thousand of the population,
calculated on the deaths which took place in the
Parish, was 16.7; the rate for deaths of parishioners
in Infirmaries, Asylums, Hospitals, etc., was 4.9,
making a corrected total death-rate of 21.6. The
death-rate in London was 18.6; the average deathrate
in the previous ten years having been 20.1
With the exception of the rates in the years 1889
and 1894, the rate in 1896 was the lowest hitherto
recorded in London. By excluding the deaths of
persons ascertained to have been strangers, the
death-rate of London is reduced to 18.2 per
thousand.