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and 119 of females. This gives a death.rate of 17.1 per
1000 of the population estimated according to the official
method explained in the first paragraph of this report, but if
we calculate the unusual increase there mentioned we reduce
the death.rate to 16.3 per 1,000, a rate not much in excess of
our average mortality. The death.rate for London was 20.4,
the lowest ever recorded, and that of 28 great towns 21.57,
so that the mortality of the sub.district cannot be considered
excessive.
YEARS.
Births.
Birth.rate.
Number of deaths
from all classes.
Death.rate.
Rate of Natural
Increase.
1873 320 30.0 125 13.3 18.3
1874 290 27.8 156 15.0 12.8
1875 292 27.3 167 15.7 11.6
1876 300 27.3 143 13.0 14.3
1877 351 31.1 170 15.0 16.0
1878 338 29.1 186 16.0 13'1
1879 327 27.4 179 15.0 12.2
1880 347 27.3 177 13.6 13.2
1881 340 25.5 167 12.5 12.9
1882 361 26.3 208 15.1 11.1
1883 349 24.7 241 17.1 7.6
The excess of births over deaths, constituting the natural increase
in the population, was 108 give a rate of 7.6 per 1,000.
The table which follows is, in an abridged form, the same
as that employed by the Registrar-General, and also
arranged accordingly to the classification of diseases drawn
up by the College of Physicians of London, for use in certifying
the causes of death.
Some sub-classes, which appeared to me unnecessary, have been omitted and others which I
deemed useful in classifying the causes of death, adopted.