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The birth-rate for England and Wales during 1896, was
29.7 per 1,000, as compared with an average of 310 per 1,000
during the preceding ten years.
The distribution of the births of 1896 in the District is
shown in the following table, from which it appears that in the
individual parishes the birth-rate per 1,000 varied from 19.1 in
Ooulsdon and 20.9 in Beddington to 30 7 in Mitcham and 41.2 in
Woodmansterne:—

Deaths.
The deaths registered in the District during the year 1896,
numbered 557, of which 209 occurred in the three institutions
already mentioned, and, as they were of persons not belonging
to the District, that number must be deducted. Thirty.eight
deaths, 25 of males and 13 of females, must however be added,
this number representing the persons belonging to the District
who died outside its boundaries, either in Croydon institutions,
Kingston Workhouse, or at the Brookwood County Asylum.
The corrected number of deaths, therefore, to be accounted
to the District in 1896, is 386, of which 203 were of males, and
183 those of females.
This mortality corresponds to a death-rate of 13T5 per 1,000
persons living. The death-rate among males was 14.6, and that
among females was 11.9, per 1,000 living of the corresponding
sexes.