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excluded. On the other hand, I have received information from
Somerset House of the deaths of 431 parishioners registered as
dying in public institutions in other parts of the Metropolis. After
adding these deaths and subtracting those of non-parishioners,
there is a net total of 2,936.
The deaths in each sub-district, corrected by distribution of
institution deaths, both within and without the district, were as
under:—
North 1,168
South 814
East 954
Total 2,936
DEATH RATE.
We shew a mortality rate, upon the basis of the estimated
population for the year 1899, of 22.7.
Though this is an increase of 0.5 per thousand over the rate of
the previous year, the proportion to the general Metropolitan rate
is unaltered. This last has also increased, and is exactly three and
a half per thousand below the mortality rate for Bethnal Green.
The rate for the whole of London was 19.3, against 18.7 for the
previous year.
The mortality rates in the group of West districts was 18.0; in
the North, 17.8 ; in the Central, 23.0 ; and in the East (which
includes Bethnal Green), it was 22.9, a difference of 0.2 in our
favour. The mortality in the registration sub-districts was as
under:—
1898. 1899.
North 22.7 23.6
South 24.9 23.8
East 19.6 21.1