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Appendix III. to Annual Report.
Report of the Medical Officer of health.
Gentlemen,
During the 52 weeks ending December 29th, 1900, the
number of births registered in London amounted to 130,868,
and the deaths to 86,007. The Registrar-General estimates
the population of London at the middle of that year to be
4,589,129, and the birth-rate, marriage-rate and death-rate are
all calculated on these figures The birth-rate, which has been
steadily declining since 1896, last year reached 28.6 per
thousand, and is the lowest that has yet been recorded.
The marriages numbered 40,499, and the rate per thousand was
17.6, thus being lower than in 1899, when the rate per thousand
was 18.4. The deaths, as stated above, numbered 86,007, and
therefore corresponded to an uncorrected rate of 18.8 per
thousand, the average in the previous ten years having
been 19.8. Included in this total are the deaths of Londoners
who died in metropolitan institutions outside London, and also
those of strangers who had been admitted into London
hospitals and infirmaries from districts outside its boundaries.
If these last be excluded the death-rate of London as a whole
will be reduced to 18.3 per thousand.
On next page in tabular form, are shown the births and
the deaths, together with the birth-rate and death-rate for
London taken as a whole, and also for the various groups of
its sub-districts.