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Additional particulars respecting births and birth-rate, &c, for the
decenniad, will be found in Tables 1 & 2, Appendix.
DEATHS AND DEATH-RATE.
The deaths in 1879, in 53 weeks, were 2,966— males 1439, and
females 1,527— as against 3,096 in 52 weeks in 1878. Of these deaths,
2,304 were registered in the Town sub-district, and 662 in Brompton.
The total in the Town includes 281 at the Parish Infirmary and
Workhouse, and 40 at St. Joseph House, Not ting Hill. The total in
Brompton, includes 110 at the Consumption Hospital. Of these 110
deaths, 106 were of non-parishioners, which, following custom, I
retain in the vital statistics by way of compensation for the
deaths of parishioners that may have taken place in public institutions
or elsewhere outside the parish. The death-rate, whole parish, was
19'1 per 1000, or 0'1 below the decennial rate. The registration
year, however, comprised 53 weeks, a fact which tends to obscure in
some degree the favourable character of the vital statistics generally.
For a year of 52 weeks the rate would have been 18.7 or 0.5 per 1000
below the decennial average. Tiie rate in the whole Metropolis was
23.3 per 1000. Assuming for the occasion the accuracy of the
estimates of population in the sub-districts, and of the number of
males and females respectively, it would appear that the death-rate in