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of last year reduced to 49. In North Paddington
the deaths last year were 14 in excess of the
decennial average, corrected for increase of population,
and in South Paddington 6 in excess of the
average, corrected for decrease in population. The
death-rate in the Northern half was 0.20, and in the
Southern 0.26, above the respective decennial mean
rates. The corrected totals and the corresponding rates
for each year since 1885 will be found in Table 17.

* The local figures are corrected for non -parishioners and deaths in outlying
institutions ; those of London are not so corrected.
In London, last year's death-rate was 0.4 per
1,000 below the decennial mean-rate,* and the
* It will be noticed that the death-rates for London, both as regards the
decennial mean rate and that for last year, in Table 17, differ from those in
Table 21 below. The figures in Table 17 have been taken from the Appendix
of the Registrar-General's Annual Summary, and those in Table 21 from
Table 3, included in the body of the Summary, where the deaths in public
institutions have been allotted to their proper districts.