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The corrected total of deaths is found by taking the
difference of these two latter numbers (140) from the
gross total 1867, and is therefore 1727.
I estimate the population of the parish at the middle
of the year at 90,628, almost exactly one thirty-eighth
part of the estimated population of London at the same
date, so that the corrected death-rate has been 19.05 per
thousand per annum, as against 18.56 in 1874, and the
difference in the death-rate is not so much as might at
first sight have been expected from the gross totals of
deaths.
The general London death-rate was 23.7 in 1875,
and 22.5 in 1874, showing a far greater difference than
that of St. George's, which proves that the causes of the
increased mortality are general, and have operated less
in our parish than in London generally.
The corrected death-rate in the western districts was
22.1, or 3 05 higher than in St. George's, while the
general London rate was no less than 4.75 higher than
ours.
The lowness of our death-rate for the year is also
illustrated by the fact that it is less than that of any of
the large towns mentioned by the Registrar-General, the
nearest to it being Portsmouth, with a rate of 19.5, and
the farthest from it Salford, with one of 31.5 per thousand
per annum.
Table II. shows that the number of births was rather
smaller than in 1874, but rather larger than in 1873; the
birth-rate was 24.12 per thousand per annum, a very low
rate, as usual; that of London being 35.7, and the
average for the 21 large towns being 37.1 per thousand
per annum.