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Males 687
Females 717
The number of deaths in public institutions in the District
amounted to 165, an increase of 15 on the previous
year.
Lewisham Workhouse 127 deaths.
Lower Sydenham Home for Sick
Children 14 „
St. John's Hospital, Blackheath 13 „
North Surrey District Schools, Penge 8 „
Watermans' Asylum, Penge 3 „
Death rate for 1894, 14.0 per 1000, as compared with
15.1 per 1,000 in the previous year.
During the same period the death rate in England and
Wales, which in the preceding four years had been successively
19.5, 20.2, 19.0 and 19.7 per 1000, was 16.6 per 1,000,
being not only the lowest ever recorded, but so much as 1.5
per 1,000 under the lowest previous rate, viz., 18.1 in 1888.
It was also 2.6 per 1,000 below the mean annual rate of the
preceding ten years.
The death rate in London for 1894 was 17.8 per 1000,
also lower by 2.6 than the average of the preceding ten
years.
The death rate of the "Outer Ring" of suburban districts,
with a population of over a million and a-half was
only 13.0 per 1,000.
The death rate of the thirty-three great towns of
England and Wales, with a population of nearly ten and a
half millions, averaged 18.1 per 1,000, ranging from 13.2
in Croydon to 23.8 in Liverpool.