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The annual death-rate will be equal to a ratio of 12, being lower
than that for the preceding year, which was equal to 13.4, and also
being the lowest recorded death-rate for the year of any parish in
the Metropolis. The death-rate for London corresponds to a rate of
18.6 per 1000 of the population, the average death-rate in the previous
ten years having been 20.1. With the exception of the rates in the
years 1889 and 1894, the rate of 1896 was the lowest hitherto
recorded for the Metropolis.
Mortality at different Ages.—The deaths of children under one year
were 180, or equal to 19.7 per cent. on total deaths, and to 12 per cent.
on total births. Between the ages of 1 year and 5 the deaths were
123. At 65 years and upwards there were 238 deaths, and of these 135
died between 65 and 75, 85 between 75 and 85, and 18 between 85
and 95. Seven persons attained to 90 years and upwards, the oldest
on the list reaching 95.
Deaths in Public Institutions.
North-Western Hospital 362
Hampstead Hospital 17
North London Hospital for Consumption 25
St. Peter's Home 13
Friedenheim 80
Workhouse 51
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With reference to deaths in Public Institutions, the RegistrarGeneral
remarks that in London about one in every seven deaths
occurred in a Workhouse, one in 45 in a Metropolitan Asylums Board
Hospital, one in 10 in some other Hospital, and one in 50 in a Public
Lunatic or Imbecile Asylum.
Special Causes of Death.—The deaths of parishioners from the
seven principal zymotic diseases, after correction for those of our
parishioners who died in hospitals outside our district, are equal to a
ratio of 1.8.
The ratio for London was 3.14.