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In the year 1885, there occurred, as will be seen from
Table I., 1,773 deaths in the Parish, the smallest number
recorded since 1877, and a number considerably lower than
the average during the past ten years. Of these deaths, no
less than 776 occurred in the Public Institutions in the
Parish, whereas the number of deaths of our Parishioners
which occurred in Public Institutions throughout the
Metropolis was only, as shown in the foot-note,* 436, giving
a corrected total of deaths of 1,443, equivalent to a deathrate
of 16.11 per thousand per annum. This is the lowest
death-rate that has been recorded for the Parish, except in
the year 1883, when the death-rate, recorded by the old
method of calculation, was 15.70 ; but if I had adopted the
same method of calculation this year. I find that our proportional
share of deaths in Public Institutions in London
was only 378 instead of 436, our actual number. This
would give a corrected total of deaths of 1,385, equivalent
to a corrected death-rate of only 15 46 per thousand per
annum. We may therefore, I think, fairly consider that
during the year 1885 the lowest true death-rate yet arrived
at by the Parish was reached.