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VITAL STATISTICS
By the Act, 20 Vict. c.19. s.3., it is provided that the
Middle Temple shall not be added to any Union. In other words
it is extra-parochial and for purposes of registration - of
births, deaths and marriages - is Joined to the sub-district
of St. Clement Danes, which again forms part of the Strand
registration district. There have been no births during the
years 1893 and 1894: Neither has any marriage been solemnised
in the Temple Church during the same period or indeed for that
matter for many years past. Too deaths occurred in 1894,
namely -
(1) A male, aged 59, whose death was due to congestion
of the longs followed by perforation of the stomach; and,
(2) A female, aged 68, whose death was caused by heart
disease diabetes.
No deaths were recorded during 1893.
The fewness of residents in the Middle Temple, coupled
with the a absence of births, and comparative freedom from
infectious disease, renders it unnecessary for me to fill up
the two elaborate tables furnished by the Local Government
Board. Of these printed forms, the one marked A., is a Table
of Deaths, during the year 1894, classified according to