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DEATHS.
During last year 1,670 deaths were registered in this
Parish, against 1,570 in the previous year. Making due
allowance for the increase of the population, the number
of deaths registered in this Parish last year was 53 below
the average number registered during the last 10 years.
Adding 383 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 169 deaths of non-parishioners which
occurred. 72 at the West London Hospital, 51 at Nazareth
House, 6 at the Convent of the Good Shepherd, 6 at St.
Joseph's Schools, 15 at H.M. Prison, Wormwood Scrubs,
and 19 which otherwise occurred in the Parish, the corrected
number of deaths of parishioners registered last
year was 1,884. On the before mentioned estimated
population, the corrected number of deaths of parishioners
registered last year was equal to an annual rate of 17.5
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 18.3 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 1,964 and a mortality rate therefore
of 18.3 per cent. The difference of 80 is accounted for as
follows:—In the first place I make the deaths as registered
in the Parish as one more than the Registrar-General.
The difference of 79 is due to the fact that the RegistrarGeneral
has made no allowance for 15 deaths that
occurred at the Fulham Union Infirmary, and one at
Chelsea Infirmary, which were reported to me from
Somerset House, as of parishioners of this parish, and
which upon inquiry I found were deaths of children
who had been born in the Infirmaries, and although
their mothers had been parishioners of Hammersmith,
and they, the children, had actually never resided in
Hammersmith at all. Besides the above there were 51