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various sanitary districts the birth-rates showed the usual wide
variations, owing principally to the differences in the age and sex
distribution of their populations. In Kensington, St. George Hanover
Square, St. James Westminster, Hampstead, St. Martin-in-the-
Fields, and London City the birth-rates were considerably below the
average; while in St. Luke, Bethnal Green, Whitechapel, St. Georgin-the-East,
Mile End Old Town, Newington, and Bermondsey the
birth-rates showed a marked excess.
The deaths of persons belonging to London registered during the
year under notice were 90,060, equal to an annual rate of 20.9 per
1,000 of the population, against 21.1 and 20.3 in the preceding two
years. During the eight years 1885-92 the death-rate averaged 20.0
per 1,000. The lowest death-rates in the forty-one sanitary districts
during last year were 12.9 in Hampstead, 14.6 in Lewisham (excluding
Penge), 15.2 in .Wandsworth, 16.1 in St. George Hanover
Square, 16.4 in Plumstead, 17.6 in Kensington, and 17.18 in Paddington
; on the other districts the rates ranged upwards to 26.6 in
Clerkenwell, 27.1 in Holborn, 28.2 in Limehouse, 28.4 in St. George
Southwark, 30.0 in Strand, and 30.8 in St. Luke and in St. Georgein-the-East.
During the year under notice 13,091 deaths resulted from the principal
zymotic diseases in London; of these, 3,436 were referred to
diarrhœa, 3,196 to diphtheria, 2,327 to whooping-cough, 1,658 to
measles, 1,587 to scarlet fever, 701 to different forms of "fever"
(including 5 to typhus, 675 to enteric fever, and 21 to simple and
ill-defined forms of continued fever), and 186 to small-pox. These
13,901 deaths were equal to an annual rate of 3.0 per 1,000, against
2.9, 2.3, and 2.8 in the preceding three years. This rate was, with
one exception, higher than that recorded in any of the preceding eight
years, 1885-92, during which the zymotic death-rate averaged 2.7 per
1,000. In the various sanitary districts the rates ranged from 1.3
in Hampstead and in London City, 1.5 in St. Martin-in-the-Fields,
1.6 in St. George Hanover Square, 1.7 in Lewisham, 1.8 in St.
James Westminster, and 2.0 in Westminster to 4.1 in Bethnal
Green, 4.6 in Shoreditch, 4.7 in Limehouse, 4.8 in St. George South-