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Of the 8,000 births registered in the parish last year, 4,051
were males, and 3,949 females, or in the proportion of 97-4 females
to 100 males. In the whole of England the proportion is 100 males
to 95.8 females. The average proportion of births for the whole
district is therefore 36.2 per 1000 of the population. The average
birth-rate in Islington during the last ten years is 367 per 1000; in
all England 35.4; in France 26.5; in Austria 40.1;—3,691 of the
births were in the West Sub-district, and here the proportion of
male and female is uniform, whilst 4,309 births occurred in the East
Sub-district. The largest number of births occurred in the winter
quarter ending March, the smallest in the spring ending June. The
registered births exceed the registered deaths by 3,970.
DEATHS.
The number of deaths registered in Islington, omitting those
of non-residents in hospitals, were 4,030. To these we must add 201
as our proportion (calculated on the population) of the deaths
occurring in the various hospitals in other parts of London. I
consider the method of estimating this number very unsatisfactory,
but it has always been adopted, and I can devise no better plan even
if I wished. With this addition our deaths are raised to 4,231, the
smallest actual number since 1867, as will be seen in Table No. II.,
and the smallest estimated death-rate per 1000 of which I have
records; of the 4,030 deaths, 1,727 were in the West district, and
2,303 in the East, that is the proportion of 17 per 1,000 in the
former, and nearly 19 per 1,000 in the latter, with an average of 18.2
per 1,000 of the entire population. In the preceding 10 years the
average mortality has been at the rate of 212 per 1,000, whilst in the
chief towns of England it is 26.1 per 1,000, and of all England 22.5.
Table No. II. will shew these facts in further detail.