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THIRTY-THIRD ANNUAL REPORT
of the
MEDICAL OFFICER OF HEALTH,
BEING FOR THE YEAR 1888.
To the Vestry of the Parish of St. Mary Abbotts, Kensington.
Gentlemen,
The vital statistics in the following report are for the
registration year ended December 29th, 1888; the sanitary
statistics being for the statutory year ended March 25th,
1889.
The vital statistics are calculated upon an estimated population
of 177,000, a total arrived at on data furnished by the
census of 1881, corrected as far as practicable by the number of
inhabited houses.
The deaths registered were 2,825, being 47 below the
number in 1887 and 167 below the decennial average corrected
for increase of population.
The death rate, 15.9 per 1,000, was 0 5 below the rate in
1887, and 0.9 below the decennial average (16.8). It was 2'6
below the rate in London, as a whole (18.5), and 1.9 below the
rate in England and Wales (17.8).
The death rate in London shows a decrease of 1.1 upon that
of 1887 (19.6), which was the lowest on rccord. The rate in
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