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Table IV shews the number of births and deaths, and the
birth-rates and corrected death-rates of each of the SubDistricts
and of the whole Parish, while in Table IVa these
birth-rates and death-rates are compared with those of previous
years ; from this Table we see that the birth-rate of Hanover
Square is lower than it was in any previous year, while the
birth-rates of Mayfair and Belgravia, although very low, are
each a little higher than they were in 1885, but lower than
in any year before that. The birth-rate of the Parish
generally was 19.66, being the lowest on record. The birthrate
of London generally was 32.3, and that of the 28 largest
English towns 33.2; it will be remembered that the birthrate
of this Parish has always been exceptionally low. The
death-rates of each of the Sub-Districts and of the whole
Parish were higher than those of 1885, but those of Hanover
Square and Mayfair were lower than the corresponding rates
during any previous year with the exception of 1883, when
the death-rate was the lowest that has ever been recorded;
but when, as before stated, the method of correcting the
total number of deaths was not as correct as the one now employed,
and gave a somewhat lower death-rate than the true
one. The death-rate of the Belgravia Sub-District was 18.79,
a higher number than any recorded since 1879, the deathrate
of the whole Parish, as before stated, 1717, also higher
than that in any year since 1879. If, however, the same
method of correction had been used in previous years, there
is no doubt that the death-rate of 1880,-81 and 82, and, perhaps
that of 1884, would have been as high or higher than
the death-rate in 1886.
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 1886, and have
found them as follows :—