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DEATHS AND DEATH RATE.
The deaths in 1883 were fewer by 76 than in 1882, and
some 565 below the decennial average corrected for increase
of population. The total was 2,615, viz., 2,115 in the town
sub-district and 500 in Brompton. One hundred and sixty of
the deaths, (119 in the town sub-district and 41 in Brompton),
occurred at hospitals without the parish. The death-rate,
whole parish, was 15.5 per 1,000, the lowest on record, being
0.7 below the rate in 1882, (16.2), of which I had the same
satisfactory observation to make in my last annual report. It
was 2.8 per 1,000 below the decennial average rate, (18.3); 4.0
per 1,000 below the rate in England and Wales, (19.5), and 4.9
per 1,000 below the metropolitan rate, (20.4), this, moreover,
being 2.0 per 1,000 below the decennial average, (22.4). The
rate was 16.5 per 1,000 in the Town sub-district, and 12.9
per 1,000 in Brompton. In the male sex it was 18.7, in the
female sex 13.4 per 1,000. There was one death to every 64.2
persons living; 1351 females died out of 100,670, (or one in
74.5), and 1264 males out of 67,330, (or one in 53.3). The
rate in the female sex was the same as in 1882, but the rate
in the male sex was 1.8 per 1,000 lower.
INFANTILE MORTALITY.
The deaths of young children always bear a high ratio to
total deaths, but in 1883 the ratio was lower than usual.
The deaths under five years, 982, (132 fewer than in 1882),
were equal to 37.5 per cent. on total deaths, and to 23.2 per
cent. on births registered; the relative percentages in the
Metropolis generally, being 41.6 and 25.1. Under one year
of age there were 601 deaths, or 34 less than in 1882, equal
to 22.9 per cent. on total deaths, and to 14.3 per cent. on
births registered: the relative percentages in the Metropolis
generally, being 24.1 and 14.6.
The deaths of illegitimate children under five years of age
were 78, (in 1882, 114), equal to 38.4 per cent. on births