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98
Medical Officers of Health Annual Report.
increase of population was 1,967. 133 births took place
in the Workhouse, of which 37 belonged to this subdistrict.
Of these 37.8 were legitimate and 29 illegitimate.
The birth-rate was 30.94 per 1,000, a decrease of
165 per 1,000 as compared with 1894, and lower than
the decennial average by 6.22 per 1,000. Deducting the
number of births which took place in the Workhouse of
children whose mothers belonged to other parishes, the
birth-rate would be 28 97 per 1,000.
The rate of natural increase, or the excess of births
over deaths, was 18.7l per 1,000.
Deaths and
Death-rate.
During the year 1895, 798 deaths were
registered, 410 of males and 388 of females,
au increase of 30 as compared with 1894, but it is 189
less than the decennial average corrected for increase of
population. The death-rate was 1379 per 1,000, but
from the total deaths there falls to' be deducted the
number of deaths of non-parishioners which occurred in
the public institutions situated within this sub-district.
The total number of these deaths was 135, 90 of these
occurring in the Middlesex Lunatic Asylum, 13 in the
Royal Hospital for Incurables, 10 in the Prison, 9 in the
Workhouse, 6 in the Cottage Home, Burntwood Lane,
and 5 in St Peter's Hospital. No deaths occurred in
the Patriotic Asylum for Girls. Two deaths from
drowning in the River Thames have also to be deducted.
Prom this corrected number of deaths, viz., 663 is
calculated the corrected death rate 12 23 per 1000, this
being 312 below the corrected decennial average.
Table I. shows the births, birth-rate, deaths from
all causes, corrected and uncorrected, and the rate of