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the two previous years, and equivalent to an annual rate of 30·2
per 1,000 persons living. The Birth Rate for London, during the
same period, was 30·5, and for the thirty-two great towns 31·9.
There were 3,440 Births registered in the Parish of Saint
Paul (1,766 males, and 1,674 females), and 245 in Saint Nicholas
Parish (127 males, and 118 females).
DEATHS.
The number of Deaths registered in Saint Paul's Parish was
1,559, in Saint Nicholas Parish 144, in the South-Eastern Metropolitan
Asylums Board's Hospital 263, and in outlying Public
Institutions 464, making a total of 2,430, being equivalent to an
annual rate of 19·9 per 1,000 persons living. Of the 263 deaths
registered as occurring in the Metropolitan Asylums Board's SouthEastern
Hospital, 192 were of persons not residing in Deptford,
but who had been taken to the Hospital from other parts of the
Metropolis. If these deaths are deducted from the gross number
occurring in my district it makes the number of deaths of
parishioners only—including those dying at Outlying Public
Institutions—2,238, equivalent to an annual death rate of 18·3 per
1,000 persons living.
The death rate in the thirty-two great provincial towns during
the year, averaged 21·2 per 1,000 persons living, whilst the death
rate for the Metropolis was 19·8 per 1,000; that for Saint Paul's
Parish, including all parishioners whether dying in or out of the
Parish 18'0, and for Saint Nicholas Parish 30·7.
Full details will be found in Tabular Forms Nos. 1 and 2,
and Table No. 2 gives the Statistics of the Births and Deaths in
the two Parishes during the year, showing the number of Deaths