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The Registrar-General, referring to the Metropolis, says, in his
Annual Summary for 1881, that "only once since 1862 has the
birth rate been so low (34.7), viz., in 1871, when it was 34.5 per
1,000: the low birth rate," (he adds), "was of course correlated
with the low marriage rate of recent years." Referring to all
England the Registrar-General states in his fourth quarterly
return for 1881 that the birth rate in 1881 (33.9) "showed a
further decline of 0.3 from the steadily declining rates in the five
preceding years, and was lower than that recorded in any year
since 1858, when it was 33.7."
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DEATHS AND DEATH RATE.
The deaths of 2,726 persons were registered in 1881, viz., males,
1,328, and females, 1,398; in the Town sub-district 2,137, and
in Brompton 589, the total being fewer by 158 than in 1880, viz., 144
in the Town sub-district, and 14 in Brompton, and some 200 below
the decennial average corrected for increase of population. Of the
2,726 deaths 54 from infectious diseases occurred in the hospitals
of the Asylums Board: the number registered in the parish
(2,672), including 104 of non-parishioners at the Brompton
Consumption Hospital; 27 at St. Joseph's House, Notting Hill,
and a few others of strangers at the parish workhouse, all of which
are retained in our statistics to compensate for an unknown
number of deaths of parishioners that may have occurred outside
the parish. The death rate, whole parish, was 16.6 per 1,000