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ANNUAL REPORT
of the
MEDICAL OFFICER OF HEALTH.
I have the honour to submit the health statistics for the year
1895.
The number of deaths registered in the Parish of St. Mary,
Newington, during the year of 52 weeks, was 2243, and the
number of births 4234.
The population of the parish was estimated at the middle of the
year to be 119,358.
The registered deaths were 444, and the registered births 32
more than those of last year.
Of the 2243 deaths, 80 died in the Newington Workhouse,
Westmoreland Road, in this parish. They comprised 45 belonging
to Newington, and 35 to other parishes of the St. Saviour's
Union.
664 persons belonging to Newington died outside the parish, in
the Asylums Board 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 2,872.
The death rate, when calculated on this corrected number, is 24.0
per thousand, as against 19.9 last year. The birth rate, which was
35.4 per thousand last year, has been this year at the same point,
viz. 35.4 per thousand.
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