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sub.district, which includes the parish workhouse, at which institution
out of 127 births (males 60, females 67) 103 (including 10
stillborn) were illegitimate. In the parish generally, the illegitimate
births formed 4.5 per cent, of total births, as against 4"8,
42, and 5.8 in 1883.4.5 consecutively.
For particulars respecting annual number of births and birth
rates in the decennial period, 1876.85, see Tables I. and II.,
Appendix.
DEATHS AND DEATH BATE.
The deaths registered in 1886, inclusive of 183 at outlying
public institutions, but exclusive of deaths of non.parishioners at
intra.parochial public institutions, were 2,756, or 259 below the
decennial average corrected for increase of population: 2,178 of
the deaths belong to the Town sub.district, and 578 to the
Brompton sub.district. The death rate, whole parish, was 15.9
per 1,000, compared with 15.5, 15.1, and 16.1 in the three preceding
years; being 1.4 below tliejdecennial average and 4.0
below the London rate (19.9); this, moreover, being 1.7 below
the average, and only 0.2 above the rate in 1885, which was the
lowest on record. It was 3'4 below the rate in England and
Wales (19.3); this being 0.4 above the rate in 1881, the lowest
on record. The rate in the Town sub.district was 17.0 and in
Brompton 12.6, as against 17'4 and 12.4 in 1885. The rate in
the male sex was 19.1, and in the female sex 13"7 per 1,000, as
against 19'2, and l4.0 in 1885. There was one death to every
62'9 inhabitants, as against one to 62.1 in 1885. Out of 69,75 )
males, 1,331 died, equal to one in 524, as against one in 52.0 in