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Deaths.—The total number of deaths registered in the
Parish was 1,323. Of this total 581 were deaths, within the
district, of non-parishioners—chiefly occurring in hospitals—
after the deduction of which, and the addition of 56 Hampstead
parishioners who died in various Institutions outside
the district, we get the corrected total of 798. These 798
deaths are equivalent to a death-rate for the year of 10.6.
This remarkably low death-rate has only once been reached
during the last twenty years, namely in J 888, when the
death-rate was 10.5, but was nearly equalled in 1889, when
we recorded an annual death-rate of 10.7. Comparing our
death-rate with other London Parishes we find that with
the exception of the Parish of Stoke Newington, we have the
lowest death rate for the year in the forty-three sanitary
areas. The rate for Stoke Newington was 9.8, but it must
be remembered that the number of inhabitants of that Parish
is barely equal to half that of Hampstead; Wandsworth and
Lee registered 12.4; St George's, Hanover Square, 14.5;
Islington, 15.9; St. Pancras, 18.3; Marylebone, 19.3;
whilst in some districts in the East of London the numbers
were as high as 24.7 in Limehouse, and 26.4 in St. George'sin-the-East.
The death-rate for the whole of London was 174 per
1,000 of the population, and is stated to be the lowest
recorded since the establishment of civil registration, nearly
sixty years ago. Judging by the death-rate the year must
bo considered to have been a very healthy one; nor are the
causes far to seek, when we remember that the various
epidemics of influenza in 1890, 1891 and 1892, had carried
off many feeble and delicate lives, and that the cold and
cheerless summer of 1894 had kept down the mortality from
diarrhœa.