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BIRTHS.
The number of births registered for the whole District
(which includes the united Parish of St. Olave and St. Thomas
and that of St. John), for the 52 weeks ending December
30th, 1899, was 365. Of this total, 179 were male children
and 18(5 female children. This gives a birth-rate of 32.9 per
thousand of the population. The birth-rates for the five preceding
years were 31.7, 37.9, 35.9, 32.9, 33.2, and the birthrate
for Registration London for the year was 29.4, the
lowest London birth-rate recorded.
DEATHS.
The deaths registered in the 52 weeks ending 30th
December, 1899, as having occurred in the District were 895 ;
711 of these took place at Guy's Hospital, this number
including only 26 deaths of parishioners, 685 belonging to
other Districts. At the Parish Street Workhouse there were
29 deaths, only six of these belonging to the District.
Four bodies were found in the Thames, all non-parishioners.
Five non-parishioners died in the District.
I received the returns of 92 deaths occurring outside the
District, among persons belonging thereto.
Thus the number of deaths of persons belonging to the
District was 270.
The corrected annual death-rate was 24.3 per thousand.