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London (calculated in proportion to populations), we thus
get 1,679 as the corrected number of deaths in the Parish
for a year of 52 weeks.
This gives us a corrected death-rate of 18.56 per thousand
per annum, or nearly 4 per thousand per annum less than
that of London generally, which was 22.5.
Our rate is less than that of any one of the twenty large
towns of the United Kingdom mentioned by the RegistrarGeneral,
the nearest to it being Portsmouth with 20.4, and
the farthest from it Liverpool with 32.
Not only so, but it is markedly less than the death-rate
for "the Districts and Sub-Districts of England and Wales,
comprising chiefly small towns and country parishes," which
was 19.3 per thousand per annum during the year 1874.
From Table II. we see that the number of births was
2,266, or somewhat mOre than that of last year—2,144; if
we subtract one fifty-third from this number, we have still
2,223.3, giving a birth-rate of 24.59 per thousand per
annum, a much smaller birth-rate than that of London
eenerallv.