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The increased number of births over deaths during the year
1894 amounted to 481, a knowledge of which fact assists in
forming an estimate of the population, as already indicated.
Deaths.
The deaths from all causes registered during the year,
belonging to St. Luke, numbered 951, and includes 397
parishioners who died in Institutions outside the Parish, but is
exclusive of 71 non-parishioners who died within our parochial
boundary. This, with the exception of the year 1889, is the
smallest number of deaths that have been recorded for the nine
years during which the deaths of persons dying in out-lying
Institutions have been included in our Returns.

Infant Mortality :—Of the 951 deaths 376 or 39.5 per cent.
occurred to infants under 5 years of age.
Mortality over 65 years of age :—205 parishioners were over
65 at the time of death, being at the rate of 21.5 per cent, of the
total deaths recorded.
The 71 deaths of non-parishioners occurred at the following
Hospitals and other places in the Parish.
Eoyal Hospital for Diseases of the Chest 41
City of London Lying-in Hospital 12
St. Luke's Hospital for Lunatics 15
Suicide by Drowning in Regent's Canal 1
„ Poisoning at an Hotel in Finsbury 1
Injuries by Machinery at a Warehouse in City Road 1
71
Hospitals, Asylums, Infirmaries, Workhouses and other
Institutions situated outside the Parish at which Parishioners
died during the year:—