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number of inhabitants is not so great as it would have been if
the annual rate of increase for the ten years, 1871—80 had continued
until now. I calculated the number of our inhabitants
on July 1st, 1888, to have been 226,000, whilst the number in
this analysis is put down at 231,903. Besides this, my return
is from January 1st, 1887, to December 31st, inclusive, whilst
the other is almost necessarily for fifty-two weeks or for one
day less. The annual death rate for Hackney in the analysis is
given at 16.0, whilst in my report it is stated to be 16.6 per 1000
inhabitants. This is satisfactory as it corroborates my figures.
The other districts having a low death rate are returned in
this analysis as follows:— Paddington 15.9; Kensington
15.2; S. George's, Hanover Square 16.2; Hampstead 13.0;
Hackney 16.0; Wandsworth 16.4; Camberwell 16.8; Plumstead
14.3. The high death rates are London City 23.0;
S. Giles 26.1 ; Strand 23.4 ; Shoreditch 23.7; Whitechapel
23.3; S. George's, East 28.7; Stepney 25.3; S. Saviour's,
Southwark 28.5 ; S. George's Southwark 27.0 ; and S. Olave,
Southwark 26.6. These figures are all based on the assumption
of the populations of each sanitary district having described
the same curve as for 1871—80, and therefore cannot be
checked, except perhaps by the medical officers of health for
each district. At any rate, judging from the Hackney death
rate, they are not far from the truth, and much nearer than
any hitherto published for the whole metropolis, as it is only
lately that the data for making these calculations have been
available. The birth rate for the City of London is returned as
the smallest in the metropolis, having been only 196 per 1,000
inhabitants; S. Martin's in the Fields having been 19.7;
S. George's, Hanover Square 19.9; S. James', Westminster
20.6 ; Kensington 20.8 ; and Hackney 28.5. The districts and
parishes having high birth rates are Whitechapel 38.0 ; Bethnal
Green 38.3; S. Luke's 38.4; S. Olave, Southwark 38.3; S.
George in the East 40.4 ; and Fulham as many as 48.9 per
1,000 inhabitants. The deaths of infants under 1 year old in