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DEATHS.
During last year, 1,570 deaths were registered in this
Parish, against 1,556 in the previous year. Making
due allowance for the increase of the population, the
number of deaths registered in this Parish last year was
156 below the average number registered during the last
10 years. Adding 291 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 161 deaths of non-parishioners
which occurred, 103 at the West London Hospital, 36 at
Nazareth House, 7 at the Convent of the Good Shepherd,
1 at St. Joseph's Schools, 3 at H.M. Prison, Wormwood
Scrubbs, and 11 which otherwise occurred in the Parish,
the corrected number of deaths of parishioners registered
last year was 1,700. On the before mentioned estimated
population, the corrected number of deaths of parishioners
registered last year was equal to an annual rate of 16.0
deaths per 1,000 persons living; the death-rate in London
on the estimated population of London up to the middle
of the year was equal to an annual rate of 17.7 per 1,000
persons living.
I observed that the Registrar-General in his annual
summary gives the corrected number of deaths of parishioners
of this parish as 1,760 and a mortality rate therefore
of 16.7 per cent. The difference of 60 is accounted for
as follows:—13 deaths that occurred at the Fulham
Union Infirmary, which were reported to me from
Somerset House, as of parishioners of this parish, and
which the Registrar General has added, upon inquiry I
found were deaths of children which had been born in
the Fulham Union Infirmary, and although their
mothers had been parishioners of Hammersmith, they,
the children, had actually never resided in Hammersmith
at all. There were also 34 deaths of non-parishioners
at Nazareth House, 7 at the Convent of the Good Shepherd,
1 at St. Joseph's School, and 3 at H.M. Prison,