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90
the decennial average. The rate in the Town sub-district
was 23.6 and in Brompton 15.4. There was one birth
to 46.8 inhabitants and 102.7 births of males to 100 of
females. The births of illegitimate children were 193
(five more than in 1887), viz., males 120 and females 73. Of
these births 180 were registered in the Town sub-district,
which includes the parish workhouse, at which institution
there were 139 births, of which 103 were illegitimate. In the
parish generally, the illegitimate births formed 4.7 per cent,
of total births, as against 5.8, 4.7, and 4.7, in 1885-6-7
consecutively-

For particulars respecting the annual number of births and
birth-rates, in the decennial period, 1878-87, see Tables I. and
II., Appendix.
DEATHS AND DEATH RATE.
The deaths registered in 1888, inclusive of 227 at outlyingpublic
institutions, but exclusive of deaths of non-parishioners
at intra-parochial public institutions, were 2,825, and 167 below
the decennial average corrected for increase of population:
2,250 of the deaths belong to the Town sub-district, and 575 to
the Brompton sub-district. The death rate, whole parish, was
15.9 per 1,000, compared with l6.1, 15.9, and 16.4 in the three