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7
Sanitary District.
Marylebone
Hampstead
Pancras
Islington
Stoke Newington
Hackney
St. Giles
St. Martin-in-the-Fields
Strand
Holborn
Clerkenwell
St. Luke
London City
Shoreditch
Bethnal-green
Whitechapel
St. George-in-the-East
Limehouse
Mile-end Old-town
Poplar
St. Saviour, Southwark
St. George, Southwark
Newington
St. Olave
Bermondsey
Rotherhithe
Lambeth
Battersea
Wandsworth
Camberwell
Greenwich
Lee
Lewisham
Woolwich
Plumstead
London
Births.
4,304
1,472
6,967
9,500
757
6,073
1,069
233
547
832
2,180
1,879
525
4,332
4,636
3,178
1,877
1,906
4,042
5,800
770
2,071
4,201
431
3,095
1,353
9,231
5,024
4,423
7,382
5,374
794
2,457
1,271
1,910
130,970
Birth rate
per 1,000
living.
31.2
19.6
29.9
28.7
22.2
28.8
28.1
17.0
23.7
25.7
33.5
45.8
15.1
35.3
35.8
42.2
41.5
33.5
37.5
34.2
28.9
34.6
35.6
33.3
36.9
33.6
32.8
31.2
24.7
29.7
31.1
20.9
24.4
30.1
32.3
30.1
Births per
100 females
aged 15—45.
9.94
5.36
11.54
10.86
7.31
10.78
9.91
5.81
8.61
10.17
13.73
18.86
5.69
14.82
15.44
18.00
18.17
14.96
15.72
15.54
13.01
14.50
15.04
14.14
16.32
15.71
12.57
13.07
8.44
11.86
12.95
6.80
8.28
14.94
14.39
11.35
In 1894, therefore, the district of St. Luke had the highest birth rate per 1,000 living, 45.8,
and the City the lowest, 15.1.
Deaths.
During 1894, 75,705 deaths were registered in the administrative county of London, giving a
death rate of 17.4 per 1,000 living. Since the year 1870 the London death rate has been as follows—
1871 24.6
1872 21.5
1873 22.4
1874 22.4
1875 23.6
1876 21.9
1877 21.6
1878 23.1
1879 22.6
1880 21.7
1881 21.3
1882 21.5
1883 20.8
1884 20.9
1885 20.4
1886 20.6
1887 20.3
1888 19.3
1889 18.4
1890 21.4
1891 21.0†
1892 20.3†
1893 20.9†
1894 17 . 4†
Reference to Diagram III. shows that the death rate of 1894 has been lower than the death
rate of any year since 1841. It has in fact been lower in 1894 than that of any year since "civil
registration " was instituted. In view of this circumstance it is desirable to ascertain the effect on the
death rates of London of the changes which have occurred in the age and sex distribution of the
population since that date.
This effect may be approximately ascertained by assuming a constant rate of mortality at the
several age periods 0-, 5-, 10-, 15-, &c., and by applying these rates to the populations as enumerated
at these age groups at each census from 1841 onwards. By adopting as a standard the rates of
mortality for England and Wales obtaining at each age-period in the decennium 1881-90, and applying
these rates to the London population at similar age periods as enumerated at the censuses of 1841,1851,
1861, 1871, 1881 and 1891, the following death rates per 1,000 living at all ages are obtained—
Year. Death rate.
1841 17.51
1851 18.02
1861 18.26
1871 18.35
1881 18.28
1891 17.96
t These death rates are fully corrected for deaths in institutions, i.e., by the exclusion of deaths of persons not belonging to but
occurring in institutions situated within Loudon, and by the Inclusion of deaths of persons belonging to London but occurring in
institutions situated outside London.