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6 Medical Officers of Health Annual Report.
The birth-rate was 25.17 per thousand, compared with
27.1 in 1893. The mean rate for the last ten years
was 28.9. The birth-rate for London was 30.1. The
rate was lower than any in the last decade, or indeed in
all the years of which we have record. The natural
increase of the population, or the excess of births over
deaths, corresponds with a rate of 12.57 per thousand
persons living.
Deaths. The total number was 2,155, consisting of
1,080 of males and 1,009 of females, compared with 2,370
in 1893. Of these 337 were of persons not properly
belonging to this district who died in hospitals and institutions
within its borders. They should be excluded in
calculating the death rate, but the 405 deaths in outlying
institutions should be added, the total then becoming
2,223. The corrected death rate calculated from this
total was 12.6 per thousand.