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In the above table, the gross number of births for each
Sub-District is given; the birth-rate per 1,000 per annum;
the deaths for each Sub-District (excluding those in Public
Institutions) during the 53 weeks; the number of deaths
for 52 weeks, corrected by the addition to each of the proper
proportion of the deaths which took place in all the Public
Institutions in London; and the corrected death-rates for
each Sub-District. In correcting for the fifty-third week, I
have in each case subtracted one fifty-third of the total
number for the 53 weeks, and have not taken one-fourteenth
of the last 14 weeks, or one-sixteenth of the last 6, which
would perhaps have been the fairer plan, and would have
roiven slightly lower death-rates.
From this table, we see one of the reasons for the fact
that the population of the Hanover-square Sub-District is
decreasing, namely, that its death-rate is higher than its
birth-rate, a result for which I was not prepared. I must,
however, mention here that I consider that the number of
deaths added, as the proportion of deaths in Public Institutions,
is in reality too large, on account of our low general