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TWENTY-EIGHTH ANNUAL REPORT
of the
MEDICAL OFFICER OF HEALTH,
BEING FOR THE YEAR 1883.
To the Vestry of the Parish of St. Mary Abbotts, Kensington.
Gentlemen,
In the following report the vital statistics have been
compiled for the registration year ended December 29,
1883, and the sanitary statistics for the parochial year
ended March 25, 1884.
The vital statistics are calculated upon an estimated
population of 168,000, a number arrived at, mainly, on data
furnished by the census of 1881.
The year 1883 was a singularly healthy one; the deaths
registered were 2,615 only, and 565 below the corrected
decennial average. In this total there are included 160
deaths which took place at outlying public institutions, i.e.,
special and general hospitals &c.: the deaths of non-parishioners
at public institutions within the parish are excluded.
The 2,615 deaths were equal to an annual rate of 15.5 per
1,000 persons living—the lowest on record, it being 2.8
below the decennial average, 4.9 below the London rate,
(20"4) and 4'0 below the rate in England and Wales (19.5).
B,