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TWENTY-NINTH ANNUAL REPORT
OF THE
MEDICAL OFFICER OF HEALTH,
BEING FOR THE YEAR 1884.
To the Vestry of the Parish of St. Mary Abbotts, Kensington.
Gentlemen,
In the following report tlie vital statistics have been
compiled for the registration year ended January 3rd, 1885, a
period of 53 weeks, and the sanitary statistics for the parochial
year ended March 25, 1885.
The vital statistics are calculated upon an estimated population
of 170,000, a number arrived at on data furnished by the census
of 1881, corrected by the known number of inhabited houses.
The year 1884, like 1883, was a singularly healthy one; the
deaths registered were 2,638 only, and 428 below the corrected
decennial average. In this total there are included 178 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, 150 in number, are excluded.
The deaths registered corresponded to a rate of 15"1 per
1,000 for a year of ordinary length—the lowest rate on record.
This rate was 2'9 below the decennial average (18'0), 5'2 below
the rate for London as a whole (20'3), and 4*5 below the rate in
England and Wales (19"6).
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