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The Metropolitan Death.rate for the year was equal to 18.2
per 1,000 of the population, being one of the lowest London
Death rates hitherto recorded.
Infant Mortality: Of the 1,055 deaths of Parishioners 483, or
45.8 per cent., occurred to infants under 5 years of age.
Mortality over 65 years of age:—171 parishioners were over
65 at the time of death, being at the rate of 16.2 per cent. of the
total deaths recorded.
The number of Births in excess of the Deaths during the year
1896 amounted to 454.
The number of Births registered in London amounted to 135,796
giving a rate of 30.2 per 1,000 of the population. This is the
lowest London Birth-rate on record, still the excess of Births
over Deaths was 52,285, the average increment for the previous
10 years having been 48,024 per annum.
Deaths.
The Deaths from all causes registered during the year,
belonging to St. Luke, numbered 1,055, and includes 410
parishioners who died in Institutions outside the Parish, but is
exclusive of 83 non-parishioners who died within our parochial
boundary. Of the 1,055 parishioners, 540 were males and 515
were females, a number which yields upon the estimated population
a Death-rate equal to 25.40 per 1,000 persons living, being a
decrease upon our last year's Death-rate of 2.76 per 1,000, as