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able to prepare. It shows that the number of violent deaths
is increasing, and that the percentage of violent deaths to
total deaths is much greater in this Parish than in London
generally ; the number of inquest cases, although, of course,
greater, is small in proportion to the number of violent deaths,
for whereas in London generally there were in 1876 nearly
twice as many inquest cases as deaths from violence, in this
Parish there were only 148 inquest cases to 108 deaths from
violence.
The percentage of the deaths of persons of 60 years
and upwards to the gross total of deaths was 24.36, or a
little less than last year; as usual, this is a considerably
higher percentage than that for London generally, which
was 20.08; another fact which speaks well for the health of
the Parish.