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DEATHS.
During last year, 1,642 deaths were registered in this
Parish, against 1,754 in the previous year. Making due
allowance for the increase of the population, the number
of deaths registered in this Parish last year was 99 below
the average number registered during the last 10 years.
Adding 321 deaths of parishioners of this Parish which took
place in general hospitals and other public institutions in
other parishes of London, in London County Lunatic
Asylums, and Metropolitan Imbecile Asylums, and deducting
158 deaths of non-parishioners which occurred, 89 at
the West London Hospital, 40 at Nazareth House, 6 at
the Convent of the Good Shepherd, 13 at H. M. Prison,
Wormwood Scrubs, and 10 which otherwise occurred in
the Parish, the corrected number of deaths of parishioners
which were registered during last year was 1,805. On
the before mentioned estimated population, the corrected
number of deaths of parishioners which were registered
last year was equal to an annual rate of 17 '9 deaths
per 1,000 persons living. The death-rate in London
last year on the estimated population ot London up to
the middle of the year was equal to an annual rate of
21*3 deaths per 1,000 persons living.
deaths of infants.
The corrected number of deaths of parishioners, under
one year of age, that were registered during last year was
470, against 489 in the previous year. The number of
deaths of infants under one year of age registered last
year was equal to 26*0 per cent, of the total deaths of
parishioners registered, and was equal to 15'9 per cent,
of the total registered births. The number of deaths of
infants under one year of age in London last year was
equal to 23'9 per cent, of the total deaths registered, and
to 164 per cent, of the total registered births. The
mortality rate of infants under one year of age was therefore,
as compared with the total deaths of parishioners,
registered 21 per cent, greater in this Parish than in
London, and, as compared with the total births registered,
05 less in this Parish than in London.