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Additional particulars respecting births and birth rates during
the decennium 1872.81, are set out in Tables 1 and 2 (Appendix).
DEATHS AND DEATH RATE.
The deaths registered in 1882 were fewer by 35 then in 1881,
and some 372 below the decennial average corrected for increase
of population. The total was 2,(591, viz., 2,101 in the Town sub.
district (including 13 at the infectious disease hospitals), and
590 in Brompton. The deaths of a large number of non.
parishioners are included in the above total, having been
retained in our vital statistics by way of compensation for an
unknown number of deaths of parishioners in hospitals and
elsewhere outside the parish. They include 80 at the Brompton
Hospital, 27 at St. Joseph's House, Notting Hill, and a considerable
number of strangers who died at the Parish Workhouse
and Infirmary. The death rate, whole parish, was 16.2
per 1,000, the lowest on record, being 0.4 below the rate in 1881
(16*6), of which I had the same satisfactory observation to make
in my last annual report. The death rate, I may add, was 2.2
per 1,000 below the decennial average rate (18.4), 3.4 per 1,000
below the rate in England and Wales (19.6), and 5.2 per 1,000
below the metropolitan rate (21.4), this being 0.7 per 1,000
below the decennial average (22.1). There was one death
to every 60.4 persons living. After making the necessary
distribution of the deaths at the parish infirmary in the Town
sub.district, and at the Consumption Hospital in the Brompton
district, the rate of mortality was 17 per 1,000 in the Town, and
14 per 1,000 in Brompton. The death rate in the male sex was
20.5 per 1,000, in the female sex 13.4 per 1,000. Only 1328.
females died in a population of 99,084 (or one in 74.6), whereas
there were 1,363 deaths among our 66,366 males (or one in
48.7). In 1881 the deaths of females exceeded those of males
by 70: in 1882 the deaths of males were 35 in excess.