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142
ANNUAL REPORT
OF THE
MEDICAL OFFICER OF HEALTH.
I have the honour to submit the health statistics for the year 1892.
The number of deaths registered in the parish of St. Mary,
Newington, during the year of 52 weeks, was 2,184, and the number
of births, 4,094.
The population of the parish was estimated in the middleof the year
to be 116,649. The registered deaths were 70, and the registered
births 9S below those registered last year.
Of the 2,184 deaths, 102 died in the Newington Infirmary
Workhouse, Westmoreland Road, in this parish. They comprised
62 belonging to Newington, and 40 to other parishes of the St.
Saviour's Union.
704 persons belonging to Newington died outside the parish, in
the Asylums Board's Hospitals, the General Hospitals, St. Saviour's
Infirmary, Champion Hill, and various other institutions. When
these have been properly apportioned, the actual or "corrected"
number of persons who died belonging to the sanitary area will
be found to be 2,848.
The death rate, when calculated on this corrected number, is 24.4
per 1,000; the birth rate, which was 36.2 per 1,000 last year, has
declined this year to 35.0 per 1,000.
The following are the ages at death.—660 persons died under the