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123
in Brompton, the total being 164 above the number in 1883, but
521 below the decennial average corrected for increase of population.
For so small a number of births, we have to go back to
1874, when the population was some 31,000 smaller than in 1884.
The birth rate was only 25.8 per 1,000, and 3.2 below the
decennial average. It was 27.8 in the Town sub-district, and
20.0 in Brompton, being 7.8per 1,000 below that of the Metropolis
generally (38.6), and 7.7 per 1,000 below that of all England and
Wales (33.5). There was one birth to every 38.7 persons livingarid
104.5 male births to 100 of females. The illegitimate births
were 188; males, 103, females, 85. Of these births 168 took
place in the Town sub-district, which includes the parish workhouse,
at which institution, out of a total of 132 births (males
76, and females, 56) 99 were illegitimate. The illegitimate
births in the parish formed 4.2 per cent, of total births, as against
4.8 in 1883.

For particulars respecting annual number of births and birth
rates during the decennium, 1874-83, vide Tables I. and II.
(Appendix).
DEATHS AND DEATH RATE.
The deaths in 1884 were 2,638, and 23 more than iu 1883 :
but as the official year covered a period of fifty-three weeks, the
weekly average number was smaller than in 1883. The total was
428 below the decennial average corrected for increase of population.
In the Town District 2,070 persons died, and in Brompton
568. One hundred and seventy-eight of the deaths occurred at