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The week ending July 30th was unsettled, cooler, and moister. Minimum
temperature, 54.0°; maximum, 79.5°; mean, 53.2°. On fire days rain,
mostly accompanied with thunder and lightning, fell to the extent of l.74
inch. Sunshine, 25 %. Mean barometer, 29.8 inches.
Births and Deaths.
During the five weeks ending July 30th there have been registered 259
births and 157 deaths. These births and deaths are divided among the five
sub-districts, as set forth in Table IV. 52 of the deaths were extra-parochial,
as follows:—
St. Marylebone Infirmary, Notting Hill 36
Western Fever Hospital 2
Charing Cross Hospital 1
University Hospital 1
St. Mary's Hospital 5
Children's Hospital, Paddington 1
Colney Hatch Asylum 1
St. Thomas' Home 1
St. Pancras Workhouse 1
St. Pancras Infirmary 1
Rowton House, Hammersmith 1
In the Street 1
Total 52
The birth and death-rates, as deduced from the five weeks' statistics, are
as follows: —
All Souls, birth-rate 13.8; death-rate 9.7.
Rectory, birth-rate 19.4 ; death-rate 8.9.
St. Mary, birth-rate 25.3: death-rate 14.9.
Christ Church, birth-rate 25.8: death-rate 15.3.
St. John, birth-rate 16.4; death-rate 11.7.
The whole district, birth-rate 20.2; death-rate 12.3.
The average death-rates for five years (1898 to 1902) for the corresponding
period were as follows:—All Souls, 12.8; Rectory, 14 2; St. Mary, 15.4;
Christ Church, 15.8; St. John. 16.5; the whole district, 14.6.
The following table gives, as usual, facilities for comparing the relative
mortality from certain classes of disease and proportion to 1,000 deaths
from all causes;