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an estimated population, the death-rate for the past year
was 17.73 per 1,000 persons living. The death-rate so
determined cannot, however, be accepted as the natural
one, in consequence of its being unduly exalted by the
mortality of the Surrey County Lunatic Asylum, St.
Peter's Hospital, and the Hospital for Incurables, the
inmates of which institutions are derived, with a fractional
exception, from without the parish, undergo no natural
increase, and are subject to a very high mortality; and the
deaths in which, during the past year, constituted, as is
seen above, upwards of one fourth of the whole number
registered. Correction having been made for these
disturbing influences, after the manner described in
previous reports, the natural death-rate, or that proper to
the parish, is found to have been 15.52 per 1,000 persons
living—the lowest rate ever attained since the existence
of the Board, except in the year 1857, when the rate was
a trifle less, viz., 15.40 per 1,000. In the foregoing
calculations the population is assumed to have increased
since the period of the last census in the same proportion
as it had done during the preceding 10 years.
Birth-rate.—The births registered during the past year
numbered 622, 304 of males, and 318 of females. The
birth-rate was 31.65, and the rate of natural increase
16.13 per 1,000 persons living.
Causes of Death.
The following table contains a summary of all the
causes of death, arranged in accordance with the classification
of the Registrar General, showing the sex, social
position, and age at death at different periods, and particularizing
the several diseases of the Zymotic class:—