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I am indebted to the British Medical Journal for the following
Extract:—
THE DEATH-RATES of LONDON SANITARY AREAS in 1895.
"In the accompany table will be found summarised the vital
statistics of the forty-three sanitary areas of the Metropolis,
based upon the Registrar General's returns for the year
1895. The mortality figures in the table relate to the
deaths of persons actually belonging to the respective
sanitary areas, and are the result of a complete system of
distribution of deaths occuring in the public institutions of
London amongst the various sanitary areas in which the
patients had previously resided.
The 133,715 births registered in London during 1895 were
equal to an annual rate of 30.5 per 1,000 of the population,
estimated at 4,392,346 persons in the middle of that year.
In the two preceding years the birth-rate was 30 9 and 30.1
per 1,000 respectively. In the various sanitary areas the
birth-rates showed, as usual, wide variations, owing principally
to the differences in the sex and age distribution of
their populations. In Kensington, St. George's Hanover
Square, Hampstead, St. Martin-in-the-Fields, London City,
and Lee, the birth rates were considerably below the average
; while in St. Luke, Bethnal Green, Whitechapel, St.
George-in-the-East, St. George Southwark,and Bermondsey,
the birth rates showed a marked excess.
The deaths of persons belonging to London registered during
the year under notice were 85,138, equal to an annual rate
19.4 per 1,000 of the population, against 20.3, 20.9, and 17.4
in the three preceding years. The rate in 1895 was 0.4
per 1,000 below the mean rate in the ten preceding years
1885-94, although it exceeded by 2.0 per 1,000 the very
low rate recorded in 1894. The lowest death rates last
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year in the forty-three sanitary areas were 12.0 in Hampstead,
13.4 in Stoke Newington, 14.4 in Lewisham (excluding
Penge), 14.5 in Lee, 14.8 in Wandsworth, 15.2 in Plumstead,
and 15.9 in St. George Hanover Square ; in the other