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REPORT OF THE
Medical Officer of health.
Vestry Hall,
Hampstead, N.W.
10th June, 1897.
To the Vestry of the Parish of St. John, Hampstead.
Gentlemen,
I have the honour to lay before you my Annual Report upon
the vital statistics of the Parish of Hampstead for the registration
year 1896.
For the purposes of this report it is necessary, by the directions of
the Local Government Board, to estimate our population to the middle
of 1896, which may be taken to be, at that period, 76,216.
During 1896, 315 new houses came into occupation, the majority
of which were situated in the Kilburn and West End Wards.
Marriages.—The number of marriages celebrated was 526, showing
an increase of 16 on the previous year.
Births.—The births registered during 1896 were 1,462, an increase
of 9 on the previous year. The birth-rate was equal to 19.1, or rather
less than that for the preceding year, which was 19.8. The birth-rate
for London was 30.2, one of the lowest on record. The natural increment
of our population by excess of births over deaths was 546.
Deaths.—The deaths registered in the year 1896 numbered 1,308.
Of this total 472 were deaths within the district of non-parishioners
who died in various hospitals and institutions. The number of
parishioners who died in Hampstead during 1896 was 836, and to these
we must add the deaths of 80 parishioners who died in institutions
outside our parish, making a grand total of 916.