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The comparatively short space of time that has elapsed
since the last Census admits but little probability of that
inaccuracy which, in a neighbourhood rapidly increasing
by immigration, necessarily occurs after the expiration of
several years.
Births, Birth.rate, The total number of births registered during
Rate of Natural
Increase. the year was 1,535 = 760 of males. 775 of
females. The number is 62 less than that of the year
1891 and 90 less than the corrected average. This is
the first occasion on which fewer deaths have been
recorded compared with the preceding decennial average.
The birth.rate was 32.55 per 1,000 persons of all ages,
and the rate of natural increase, or the excess of births
over deaths, 17.34 per 1,000.
Mortality. The total deaths registered were 838 = 105
of males 133 of females. The average annual number of
deaths in the ten years 1882.91 allowing for increase of
population was 825, the deaths in the past year therefore
exceeded the corrected average by 13.
Of the total deaths 131 occurred in the following public
institutions, viz.In the Middlesex County Lunatic
Asylum 86; in the Hospital for Incurables 17; in the
Prison 8; and 1 in the Royal Patriotic Asylum for Girls.
All the deaths with their causes arc set forth in the
following Table. They are arranged in accordance ,with
the classification of the Registrar General; the number
of each class of disease, is shewn, and the number of each
disease of the zymotic class, together with the age at death
at eight periods, and the sex and social position of the
deceased:—