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death-rate, although I do not feel justified in adopting—at
present, at any rate—any other method of computing that
number than the one generally employed, namely, in direct
proportion to the estimated population.
While the birth-rate of the Hanover-square Sub-District
is considerably lower than that in Belgravia, its death-rate
is actually a little higher, while that of May Fair is, as
usual, very remarkably low, and its birth-rate intermediate
between that of Hanover-square and that of Belgravia.
Although I was prepared to find a marked difference
between the Hanover-square and May Fair Sub-Districts, I
did not expect to find it so considerable; it must indicate a
greater difference between the sanitary conditions of these
two Sub-Districts than I had anticipated. If we take these
two Sub-Districts together, we find that their united deathrate
is 17.06, and their birth-rate 19.33, as against a deathrate
of 18.93, and a birth-rate of 27.39, per 1,000 per
annum, for the Belgravian Sub-District
Each of these death-rates is less than the rate for small
towns and country districts, the May Fair death-rate being
five per 1,000 per annum (or 26 per cent.) smaller than that
for small towns and country districts (14.28 against 19.3).
Of the quarterly detailed Mortality Tables (III., a, b, c,
d), only the first three are complete; the last shows the
totals of births and deaths, and the numbers of deaths from
infectious diseases, with one or two other facts, and is all
that could be compiled in the absence of the returns from
the Local Registrars.
For this reason, the table which ought to show the
numbers of deaths "from certain classes of diseases" cannot
be compiled. There were 461 deaths of persons of 60