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Birth Rate for the previous ten years.
1888 32.8 1893 36.9
1889 31.9 1894 35.4
1890 34.5 1895 35.4
1891 36.2 1896 35.2
1892 35.0 1897 34.7
The mean birth.rate for the ten years 1888-1897 was 34.8.
DEATHS.
The total number of deaths registered in 1898 was 1800, of
which 908 were males, and 892 females. This number was 94 less
than that of 1897. Of the 1800 deaths registered as occurring
within the parish boundaries, 62 died in the Newington Workhouse,
Westmoreland Road. They comprised 30 belonging as parishioners
to Newington, and 32 to other parishes of the St. Saviour's Union.
The various localities in which the "outlying" deaths occurred
are shown in the following table. The number of inhabitants
belonging to the parish, dying away from home, that is, outside our
boundaries in the various Hospitals and Infirmaries, was the
largest hitherto known, viz.: 752, or 29 per cent. of the "corrected"
number of deaths of 2,520.