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Tables IV. and IVa. show that the corrected birth-rate
of the Parish and those of the Sub-Districts were not
merely, as usual, very low, but quite exceptionally low even
for this Parish, being lower in each instance than any
previously recorded rate. They also show that the deathrates
of the Sub-Districts were very low, that of Mayfair
being the lowest yet recorded, viz., 11.19, that of Hanover
Square 15.18, being lower than in any year except 1883,
and that of Belgravia 17.49, being almost exactly the same
as it was last year, and just 0.5 per thousand higher than
in 1883, when the lowest rate yet attained by that SubDistrict,
viz., 16.99, was recorded.
From the birth-rates and death-rates in Table IVa. I
have calculated the mean duration of life in the Parish, and
in each of the Sub-Districts during the year 1885, and have
found them as follows:—

The mean duration of life in this Parish during the
last 11 years has been as follows :—
In 1875 it was 46.67 years.
„ 1876 „ 47.96 „
„ 1877 „ 49.52 „
„ 1878 „ 48.03 „
„ 1879 „ 48.55 „
„ 1880 „ 58.01 „
„ 1881 „ 50.26 „