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number of deaths was 1,971, 29 in excess of the number
for 1896, when there were 53 weeks, and the decennial
mean rate was 16.68 as compared with a rate of 15.34
for last year, showing a reduction of l.34 per 1,000
inhabitants, equal to 167 lives. In St. Mary's Sub
District the deaths in 1896 numbered 1,583 as compared
with a decennial average of 1,517, an increase of 63,
whilst the death-rate for the year was 17.09 or 1.33
below the decennial mean rate. In St. John's SubDistrict
the deaths during the year numbered 359, and
were 95 below the decennial average, whilst the deathrate
was 2.49 per 1,000 below the decennial mean rate
(13.06). If the death-rate for the whole Parish had
been reduced to the same extent as that for the southern
half, the lives of 311 individuals would have been saved
during the year. In England and Wales the death-rate
in 1896 was 17.1 per 1,000,* 1.7 below the decennial
mean rate, whilst the rate for last year in the Metropolis
(18.6) was 1.4 below the decennial mean rate (20.0).
All the rates mentioned in the preceding paragraphs
are calculated on the total populations at all ages,
and no allowances have been made for the differences
in the constitutions of the populations qud sex and age.
To correct the rates to one uniform standard, namely
that of England and Wales, factors calculated from the
sex-age constitutions of the different populations must
be employed. The death-rates in the following Table
are corrected by such factors.
* The final returns (1896) for England have not been yet issued and all
figures quoted here are liable to revision.