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DEATHS AND DEATH-RATE.
The deaths registered, inclusive of 333 deaths of parishioners
at outlying public institutions, etc., but exclusive of
deaths of non-parishioners at public institutions, etc., within
the parish, were 2,667 (males, 1,335; and females, 1,332); and
211 fewer than the corrected decennial average (2,878). Of
these deaths 2,169 were registered in the Town sub-district,
and 498 in Brompton. The death-rate, which in the preceding
three years had been 15.6, 16.2, and 16.7, per 1,000,
respectively, was 15.6 in 1897, and 1.2 below the decennial
average (16.8), and 2.6 below the rate in the metropolis, as a
whole (18.2); this, moreover, being 1.7 below the decennial
average (19.9). The rate in the sub-districts was : Town,
17.7; Brompton, 10.3 per 1,000, as compared with 18.9 and
11.1, respectively, in 1896. The sex death -rate was, approximately,
of males 19.9 per 1,000, of females 12.9 per 1,000, as
compared with 20.9 and 14.5, respectively, in 1896.
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The deaths in North Kensington were 1,704, and the
death-rate 19.7 per 1,000. The deaths in South Kensington
were 963, and the death-rate 11.4 per 1,000.
Deaths and Death-rate in the Sanitary Districts.—The
death-rate in the sanitary districts was as
follows:—
North 608 deaths, or 18.5 per 1,000 persons living.
North-East 384 deaths, or 12.7 per 1,000 persons living.
North-West 529 deaths or 32.2 per 1,000 persons living.
Central 439 deaths, or 16.2 per 1,000 persons living.
South-East 292 deaths, or 9.1 per 1,000 persons living.
South-West 415 deaths, or 13.0 per 1,000 persons living.
The deaths in the "Notting-dale" special area were 223,
or 55.7 per 1,000 persons living.