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Camberwell
for 1899
Appendix I. to Annual Report.
Report of the medical Officer of health.
Mrs. Bracey-Wright and Gentlemen,
In his annual summary for the year 1899 the Registrar-
General estimates the population of London to consist of
4,546,752, and he further reports that during that year there
were 133,120 births registered, while the deaths amounted to
89,689. The year that has just passed again breaks all previous
records so far as the birth-rate is concerned, it being 29.4 per
thousand, instead of as in 1898, 29.5.
The marriages numbered 41,853, compared with 42,016
in 1898, the rate being accordingly lowered from 18.7 to 18.4.
As stated above the deaths numbered 89,689, a number
which does not shew to advantage when compared with
1898, in which year they were only 83,936 ; the death-rate is
therefore 19.8, compared with 18.7 in 1898, being .2 above
the average rate for London for the past ten years. The total
number of deaths includes those Londoners who happen
to have died in institutions outside its boundaries, but
it also includes the deaths of 2,159 strangers who had been
admitted into London hospitals and infirmaries from districts
without its boundaries. By subtracting the latter number
from the total the death-rate is reduced to the correct figure
of 19.3 per annum, instead of 18.3 in 1898.
I shew on next page the births and deaths in tabular form,
together with the birth-rate and death-rate for the whole of
London, the deaths of Londoners who died in institutions out-side
its boundaries being included.