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DEATHS AND DEATH-RATE.
The registered deaths, inclusive of 321 deaths of parishioners
at outlying public institutions, etc., but exclusive of
deaths of non-parishioners at public institutions, etc., within
the parish, were 3,021, (males 1,430, females 1,591), and 160
more than the corrected decennial average (2,861). Of these
deaths, 2,455 were registered in the Town sub-district, and
566 in Brompton. The death-rate, which in the preceding
three years had been 16.7, 15.6, and 16.3, per 1,000, respectively,
was 17.5* in 1899, and 0.9 above the decennial average (16.6),
and 2.3 below the rate in the metropolis, as a whole (19.8),
which was the same as the decennial average. The rate in
the sub-districts was: Town, 198, Brompton 11.7 per 1,000,
as compared with 18.6, and 10.2, respectively, in 1898. The
sex-rate was, of males 21.0, females 15.2, per 1,000.
The deaths in North Kensington were 1,897, and the
death-rate 21.6 per 1,000. The deaths in South Kensington
were 1,124, and the death-rate 13.3 per 1,000. The rate in the
several sanitary districts was as follow:—
*This is the crude death-rate. The rate corrected for age and sex-distribution
was 19.3 per 1,000 The "true" death-rate is set out in the table at page 21.
North 658 deaths, or 19.6 per 1,000 persons living.
North-east 470 deaths, or 15.5 per 1,000 persons living.
North-west 572 deaths, or 33.8 per 1,000 persons living.
Central 509 deaths, or 18.6 per 1,000 persons living.
South-east 320 deaths, or 9.9 per 1,000 persons living.
South-west 492 deaths, or 15.4 per 1,000 persons living.