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BIRTHS.
During the year 1919, 453 births were registered in the City, 352 of which,
however, did not belong thereto. To the remaining 101 must be added the births
of 38 children born to Citizens temporarily residing outside the City boundary.
The number of births, therefore, on which the rate should be calculated is 139.
The annual birth rate was 9.6 per 1,000 persons of all ages, compared with a
quinquennial mean rate of 8.5 per 1,000. In the Metropolis the birth rate in 1919
was 18.3 per 1,000.
This decline in the birth rate has been in operation in this country since 1876,
and is common to nearly all European countries.
mortality.
During the year under review, 780 deaths were registered in the District,
including 681 persons dying in the City, but not belonging thereto. See Table,
p. 14, for details. Deducting these latter, 99 deaths remain, to which must be
added those of 101 persons who died in Institutions in outside districts, where they
were registered; the total, therefore, on which the City death-rate is calculated
is 200. The death rate for 1919 was 144 per 1,000 per annum of the population
(the previous year being 20.9), whilst that for the whole of the Metropolis was 13.4.
DEATHS FROM VIOLENCE.—Of the City deaths, 10.0 per cent. were
caused by injuries or violence, as compared with 62 in 1917 and 4.2 in 1918.
This is 36 above the average for the previous five years.

The death rate from zymotic disease per 1,000 of the population was 0.29
compared with 2.37 in the Metropolis.
The deaths from phthisis correspond to a rate of 0.9per 1,000 of the
population, as compared with 1.12in the Metropolis.