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Of the 8669 births registered in Islington 4316 were boys and
4353 girls, or in the proportion of 100 males to 100.85 females.
That the females should thus preponderate over the males is
unusual, and, as the above table will show, is confined to the eastern
part of the district.
The birth rate for the whole district is 36.5 per 1000 of the
population, against 38.5 of last year. The average birth rate during
the past ten years is 37.34. The birth rate for all England is 36.1
per 1000, and for the United Kingdom, 34.5 per 1000. Although,
therefore, our birth rate has somewhat diminished during the past
year, it is still above the general birth rate of England.
In Austria the birth rate is 39.9; in Spain, 37.2; and in France,
26.3 per 1000 of the population.
DEATHS.
Table No. IX presents you in detail with the causes of the
4680 deaths registered in the parish. These are exclusive of those
of non-residents in the various hospitals, which I have not considered
it needful to take into calculation, our data for their
estimation being so imperfect that any attempt to do so, is very
little better than a guess.
Of the 4680 deaths, 2225 were males and 2455 were females.
2008 deaths occurred in the western district, of which 950 were
males; and 2672 in the eastern, of which 1275 were males.
The death rate of Islington was, therefore, for the year 1874,
19.7 against 19.3 for 1873. The death rate in the United Kingdom
for 1874 was 21.6 per 1000, whilst in England alone it was 22.25.