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Death.rate. Determined from the foregoing estimated
population after correction made for those public institutions
by which the death.register is unduly raised, the
death.rate of the past year was 15.2l per 1,000 persons
living, or 0.73 higher than that of 1891, but it was 2.39
per 1,000 less than the corrected decennial average. The
correction for institutions referred to consists in eliminating
from the calculation the population and mortality
of the Middlesex County Lunatic Asylum, St. Peter's
Hospital and the Hospital for Incurables the inmates of
which are, with a fractional exception, derived from without
the sub.district, undergo no natural increase, and are
necessarily subject to a high mortality, the amount of
which is such as to vitiate any calculation of the death.rate
proper to this sub.district derived solely from the death.
register.
Inclusive of the deaths in hospitals and other institutions
situated without the sub.district the rate would be
18.07, but this calculation is faulty from the circumstance
that while the deaths of Wandsworth parishioners dying
without the sub.district are included, the deaths of non.
parisliioners dying within the sub.district are not excluded
from the calculation, inasmuch as no present means exist
of ascertaining the number of the latter deaths which
probably equal the former.
Birth and Death Rates The following Table exhibits the birth and
death.rates for the past year in comparision with those
of the ten preceding years.