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DEATHS AND DEATH-RATE.
The deaths registered, inclusive of 286 deaths of parish—
ioners at outlying public institutions, etc., but exclusive of
deaths of non-parishioners at public institutions, etc., within
the parish, were 2,798 (males, 1,335, and females, 1,463), and
71 fewer than the corrected decennial average, 2,869. Of
these deaths 2,302 were registered in the Town sub-district,
and 496 in Brompton. The death-rate, which in the pre—
ceding three years had been 16.2, 16.7, and 15.6, per 1,000,
respectively, was 16.3 in 1898, and 04 below the decennial
average (16.7), and 2.4 below the rate in the metropolis, as a
whole (18.7); this, moreover, being 10 below the decennial
average (19.7). The rate in the sub-districts was: Town,
18.6 ; Brompton, 10.2 per 1,000, as compared with 17.7, and
10.3, respectively, in 1897. The sex death-rate was, approxi—
mately, of males 19,6 per 1,000, of females 14.1 per 1,000, as
compared with 19.9, and 12.9, respectively, in 1897.
The deaths in North Kensington were 1,836 ; the deathrate
21.0 per 1,000. The deaths in South Kensington were
962 ; the death-rate 11.4 per 1,000.
Deaths AND Death-rate IN THE Sanitary Dis—
tricts. The death-rate in the sanitary districts was as
follows:—
North 684 deaths, or 20.5 per 1,000 persons living.
North-East 437 deaths, or 14.4 per 1,000 persons living.
North-West 522 deaths, or 31.0 per 1,000 persons living.
Central 449 deaths, or 16.4 per 1,000 persons living.
South-East 278 deaths, or 8.6 per 1,000 persons living.
South-West 428 deaths, or 13.4 per 1,000 persons living.