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Saturday, January 3rd, 1885, was 1,873, or only one more
than the average gross total of deaths during the 10 years
1874 to 1883, of which 10 years 8 were years of 52 weeks.
Of these deaths 769 (or 60 less than in 1883) occurred in
the Public Institutions in the Parish, while our share,
according to population, of the deaths occurring in all the
Public Institutions in London was only 384. Our total of
deaths, corrected for the deaths in Public Institutions and
also corrected to 52 weeks, was 1,460, or 131 less than the
annual average for the preceding 10 years. This corrected
total is equivalent to a death-rate of only 16.30 per thousand
per annum, the lowest death-rate yet recorded for the Parish,
except that of 1883, and more than 1¼ per thousand lower
than the average death-rate of the preceding 10 years. The
average corrected death-rate during the 5 years 1880-84
inclusive has been only 16.456 per thousand per annum, so
we may regard 16½ per thousand per annum as the present
normal death-rate of the Parish.
I have calculated the above death-rate in the same
manner as during previous years, viz., by allotting to this
Parish a share of the deaths in Public Institutions in London
in proportion to the population of the Parish, but during
1884 we have, for the first time, been able to ascertain the
actual number of Parishioners dying in the Public Institutions
in London outside the Parish, and so we are able to
ascertain the exact number of Parishioners who have died
in Public Institutions; it is 377, viz., 282 in the Public
Institutions in the Parish, and 95 in the other Public Institutions
in London. As this number 377 is only 7 less than
the number calculated according to population, I have
thought it preferable this year to adhere to the latter
number in my calculations, so that the results may be
accurately comparable with those of previous years. Taking
the actual number of deaths in Public Institutions instead