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DEATHS AND DEATH-RATE.
The deaths registered in 1893, inclusive of 312 deaths
of parishioners at outlying public institutions, &c., but
exclusive of deaths of non-parishioners at public institutions
within the Parish, were 2,916, and were 110 above
the corrected decennial average (2,806). Of these deaths
2,305 belong to the Town sub-district, and 611 to Brompton.
The death-rate, which in the preceding three years had been
17.8, 18.4 and 17'2 respectively was 17'5 per 1,000, being 0.7
above the decennial average, 16.8 : it was 3.8 below the rate in
the Metropolis as a whole (21.3), this being 0.9 above the
decennial average (20.4:). The rate in the Town sub-district
was 19"4, that in Brompton being 12.7; against 19.0 and 13.1
respectively in 1892. The rate in the male sex was 20.0, that
in the female sex being 15.2 ; against 20.9 and 14.9, in 1892.
In the Parish, as a whole, there was one death to 57'3 persons
living, the proportion in 1892 having been one to 57.8.
The deaths of males were 1,378, out of a total of 65,950
persons of that sex, or one in 47'8 ; against one in 47.7 in 1892.
Of 101,050 females 1,538 died, or one in 65.7; against one
in 66.4 in 1892. The deaths in the first and fourth or colder
quarters (1,611) exceeded those in the second and third or
warmer quarters (1,305) by 306. In the preceding three
years consecutively, the difference in favour of the warmer
quarters was 293, 288 and 358.
Infantile Mortality.—The deaths of children under
5 bear a high ratio fo total deaths. In 1893 these deaths were
965 (againsit 1,095, 968, and 972 in the preceding three years)
the corrected decennial average being 1,040. These 965 deaths
were equivalent to 33T per cent. on total deaths, and to 26.5
per cent. on births registered: the equivalent percentages for
the whole Metropolis were 38.4 and 26.5. The deaths under
one year were 625, against 651, 633, and 587 in the preceding
three years, the corrected decennial average being