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children and 210 female children. This gives a birth-rate
of 35.9 per thousand of the population. The birth-rates for
the five preceding years were 32.9, 33.2, 32, 36.2, 37.8, and
the birth-rate for Registration London for the year was 30.6.
In 1894 it was 30.1, the lowest London birth-rate recorded,
this year being the next lowest.
DEATHS.
The deaths registered as having actually occurred in the
District were 832; 636 of these took place at Guy's Hospital,
this number including only 23 deaths of parishioners, 613
belonging to other districts. At the Parish-street Workhouse
there were 31 deaths, only 3 of these belonging to the District.
Twelve bodies were found in the Thames, all non-parishioners.
The deaths of 74 parishioners were returned from outlying
public institutions.
After making the necessary corrections, it is found that
302 deaths of parishioners took place in the 53 weeks ending
January 2nd, 1897.
The corrected annual death-rate was 21.7 per thousand.
Just 30 per cent. of the deaths were those of parishioners who
died in outlying Public Institutions.
The death-rate for London for the year was 18.2.