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thousand per annum, or lower than either last year or the
year before (Table I a.)
Table I a.
year.
Gross Total
of Deaths.
Deaths in
Public
Institutions.
Proportional
Share of
Deaths in Public
Institutions.
Corrected
Total
of Deaths
(52 weeks).
Corrected
Death-rate
per 1,000
per annum.
1874
(53 weeks)
1,694
345
355
1,679
18.66
1875
1,867
502
460
1,727
19.05
1876
1,868
673
362
1,657
18.20
The general London death-rate was 22.3 per 1,000 in
1876, showing a decrease on 1875, when it was 23.7, and
being nearly 2 per 1,000 less than the average of the years
since 1840.
The death-rate in greater London was 21.3 per 1,000.
The average rate in "London and 22 other large towns of
the United Kingdom" was 237 per 1,000,—and all of these
"22 other large towns" have also a higher death-rate than
this Parish, the nearest to it being Brighton (population,
100,632) with a rate of 19.6 per 1,000,—and the farthest
from it Salford (population 138,425) with a rate of 31.9 per
1,000.
The corrected death-rate of the Western Districts was as
usual lower than that of the other divisions of London, and
was 21, or 2.8 higher than ours.
Table II. shows that the birth rate, 23.88 per 1,000, was
somewhat smaller than it was in 1875. It is always very
small in this Parish. The London birth-rate was 36.5 per
1,000, and that of the other 22 large Towns varied from
28.7 in Dublin to 49.3 in Salford, the general average for