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Deaths.
The number of deaths in the Administrative County of London (52 weeks) was 74,555, giving
an annual death rate of 16.1 per 1,000 persons living.
The London death-rate in successive periods has been as follows:—

The death-rate in each year since 1840 in relation to the mean death-rate of the period
1841-1904 is shown in diagram III.
The following table has been prepared for the purpose of comparing the death-rate of
London with those of other English towns having populations which exceeded 200,000 persons at
the census of 1901.

London had therefore (comparing the corrected death-rates) in the decennium 1894-1903 a
lower death-rate than any of these towns except Bristol, West Ham, Hull and Leicester, and in 1904
a lower death-rate than any except Bristol and Leicester.
1 These death-rates are fully corrected for institutions, i.e., by the exclusion of deaths of persons not belonging
to but occurring in institutions situated within London, and by the inclusion of deaths of persons belonging to
London but occurring in London institutions situated outside the Administrative County.
2 Including deaths of Londoners in the Metropolitan Workhouses, Hospitals, and Lunatic Asylums outside
the County of London, but excluding deaths of non-Londoners in the Willesden Workhouse, the London Fever
Hospital, the Metropolitan Asylums Board's Hospitals and the Middlesex County Lunatic Asylum, within the
County of London.
6018 B 2