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1,932, or 103 over the annual average for the preceding
10 years.

Or 185 less than in 1871, the increase in Mayfair and
Belgravia being more than counterbalanced by the decrease
in Hanover Square, due, as stated in my last Annual
Report, to the demolition of small houses, and the erection
of workshops on their sites.
Thus until the next Census is taken, we must, unless
there are strong reasons for doing otherwise, regard the
population of this Parish as stationary. It is to the
enumerated population of London as 1 to 423/5, and to the
estimated population of London for the middle of the year
1881 as 1 to 42¾.
The high gross total of 1,932 deaths during the year is
accounted for by the fact that no less than 812 deaths
occurred in Public Institutions in the Parish; as our share
of the deaths occurring in all the Public Institutions in
London was only 394, our corrected total of deaths was
only 1,514, as against an average of 1,663 during the
preceding ten years; this is equivalent to a death-rate of
16*91 per thousand per annum, the average during the
preceding ten years having been 1832. The rate for 1881
is lower than that hitherto recorded for any year, except
1880, when it was 16.64.