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The five weeks, considered as a whole, were remarkable for their general
dullness, the absence of frost, and the small quantity of rain.
Births and Deaths.
During the five weeks ending January 29th, there have been registered
330 births and 286 deaths. These births and deaths are divided among the
five sub-districts as set forth in Table IV., 63 of the deaths were extraparochial,
as follows:—
St. Marylebone Infirmary, Notting Hill 40
North-Western Fever Hospital 5
Western Fever Hospital 1
St. Mary's Hospital 1
University Hospital 1
Guy's Hospital 1
King's College Hospital 1
Charing Cross Hospital 1
Children's Hospital, Great Ormonde Street 1
Children's Hospital, Paddington 1
Workhouse, Gray's Inn Road 1
Chelsea Infirmary 1
St. Peter's Home, Kennington 1
St. Joseph's Home 1
Banstead Asylum 1
Hanwell Asylum 2
Colney Hatch Asylum 1
Daleham Gardens, South Hampstead 1
Otherwise 1
Total 63
The birth and death rates, as deduced from the five weeks' statistics,
are as follows:—
All Souls, birth-rate 18.8; death-rate 16.8.
Rectory, birth-rate 21.0; death-rate 24.1.
St. Mary, birth-rate 24.3; death-rate 22.8.
Christ Church, birth-rate 26.1; death-rate 20.6.
St. John, birth-rate 30.2; death-rate 22.9.
The whole district, birth-rate 30.6; death-rate 21.1.
The average death-rates for five years (1893 to 1897), for the corresponding
five weeks were as follows:—All Souls, 13.7; Rectory, 23.3; St. Mary, 20.2;
Christ Church, 27,1; St. John, 19.3; the whole district, 21.2.
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:—