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St Luke 1898

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for St. Luke, Middlesex]

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of Births over Deaths was 48,496, the average increment for the
previous 10 years having been 48,218 per annum.
Deaths.

Table: The Deaths from all causes registered during the year, belonging to St. Luke, numbered 1,053, and includes 412 parishioners who died in Institutions outside the Parish, but is exclusive of 124 non.parishioners who died within our parochial boundary. of the 1,053 parishioners, 569 were males and 484 were females, a number which yields upon the estimated population a Death.rate equal to 25.51 per 1,000 persons living, being a slight increase upon the previous three years' Death.rate, as shown by the following figures:—

The Deaths from all causes registered during the year, belonging to St. Luke, numbered 1,053, and includes 412 parishioners who died in Institutions outside the Parish, but is exclusive of 124 non.parishioners who died within our parochial boundary. of the 1,053 parishioners, 569 were males and 484 were females, a number which yields upon the estimated population a Death.rate equal to 25.51 per 1,000 persons living, being a slight increase upon the previous three years' Death.rate, as shown by the following figures:—

Deaths.Rate per 1000.
1892107425.57
1893127729.84
189495122.14
1895121628.16
1896105525.40
1897104725.36
1898105325.51

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The Metropolitan Death.rate for the year was equal to 18.7
per 1,000 of the population, being one of the lowest London
Death.rates hitherto recorded.
Infant Mortality: Of the 1,053 deaths of parishioners, 459, or
43.5 per cent., occurred to infants under 5 years of age.
Mortality over 65 years of age:—183 parishioners were over
65 at the time of death, being at the rate of 17.4 per cent. of the
total deaths recorded.
The 124 deaths of non.parishioners occurred at the following
Hospitals and other places in the Parish:—
Royal Hospital tor Diseases of the Chest 89
City of London Lying.in Hospital 13
St. Luke's Hospital for Lunatics 14
St. Mark's Hospital for Fistula 3
Sudden Death in the Street from Heart Disease and Hæmorrhage 4
Crushed by a Lift 1
124