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16
ANNUAL REPORT.
Short Annual Report of Births, Deaths, Vaccinations, Sanitary Statistics.,
and Improvements, for One Year of 53 weeks, from
March 26th, 1863, April 2nd, 1864.
Births. The number in the whole parish was 2412.
In the years ending
March 31st 1858 1859 I860 1861 1862 1863
The numbers were 2165 2288 2300 2119 2498 2411
In the Hanover and
Mayfair Sub-Districts,
the births this
year were 694, in
the years 1858 1859 1860 1861 1862 1863
The numbers were 660 705 710 656 735 661
In the Belgrave SubDistrict
this year
there were 1718 1505 1583 1590 1463 1763 1750
Deaths. The gross
number in the
whole parish has
been 2054, whereas
in the foregoing 6
years they were 1768 1838 1837 1769 1965 1882
Gross Death-rate. Estimating
the population
of the whole
parish as 91,500 the
gross death-rate was
22.4 per 1000 living;
last year it was 20.9,
with an estimated
population of 90,000;
the year before 22.2
with an estimated
population of 88,500.
Excess of Births over
Deaths, 358 in the
whole parish 397 450 463 350 533 529
Estimated Population. This we believe to have been 91,500 at
the end of 1863. The five wards in the Hanover and Mayfair
Sub-Districts are virtually stationary; but the two Belgrave wards
increase at the rate of at least 1500 per annum. They increased
15,000 in the ten years 1851-61, and although the Knightsbridge