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cannot be accepted as the natural one, in consequence of
its being unduly raised by the deaths of the Surrey County
Lunatic Asylum, St. Peter's Hospital, and the Hospital
for Incurables, the inmates of which institutions are
derived from without the parish, undergo no natural
increase, and are subject to a very high mortality, and the
deaths in which formed upwards of 23 per cent. of all
registered during the year. The natural death-rate
determined from the deaths which occurred in, and proper
to, the parish, with due correction for the above-named
institutions after the manner described in previous
reports, was 17.03 per 1000 persons living, or about the
average rate which obtains in rural districts, and was
upwards of 2 per 1000 less than the average of the ten
preceding years.
The Birth-rate.—The births which were registered
numbered 657—328 were of males and 329 of females.
The birth-rate was 32.37, and the rate of natural increase
15.34, per 1000 persons living of all ages.
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:—
c