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The birth-rate for the whole of London was 34.5 per thousand per
annum on the estimated population for the middle of the year, so that the
birth-rate of Islington has been above the average, and that of the West
Sub-District considerably above it.
The total number of deaths registered in the parish during the same
period, (exclusive of those of non-residents, occurring in the Small Pox and
Fever Hospitals, the Great Northern Hospital, St. Saviour's Lying-in Hospital,
the temporary Hospital established for a time at the Islington old
workhouse, and the West London Union Workhouse,) was 4626; it is very
important to make the correction above indicated, as will be seen by
referring to the Registrar-General's returns for the past year; from them
it would be gathered that there had been no less than 6294 deaths in
Islington during the year, or 1668 more than the actual number among residents,
in other words, for every four deaths thus recorded by the EegistrarGeneral,
only three really belonged to the parish. We must, however, add a
certain number as our share of the deaths taking place in public institutions in
London, other than those already included in our mortality tables; if we calculate
this upon the population, a method which is perhaps as unfavourable an
one as could be taken, we find it to be 297, a higher number than usual; adding
this to the registered total given above, we get 4923 deaths as the extreme
number due to the parish in the year, so that the births exceeded the
deaths (thus corrected) by 2732.
Of the 4626 deaths registered here, 2169 were deaths of males, and
2467 of females. The number of deaths of children under five years of
age was 1966, or considerably less than half the total number.
The (corrected) annual death-rate calculated on the population of the
parish, as estimated for the middle of the year, was 228.7 per 10,000, while
that for London generally was 247. Every large town in the kingdom,
with the exception of Portsmouth, had a higher death-rate than Islington.
Our death-rate is 5 per 10,000 higher than it was in 1870, the general
London death-rate being 7 per 10,000 higher.
According to the Eegistrar-General, the groups of London districts had
the following rates per 10,000 during the year:—West, 225; North, 256;
Central, 250; East, 262; South, 241. Thus the western districts alone