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THIRTY-FOURTH ANNUAL REPORT
of the
MEDICAL OFFICER OF HEALTH,
BEING FOR THE YEAR 1889.
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 28th, 1889; the sanitary
statistics being for the statutory year ended March 25th, 1890.
The vital statistics are calculated upon an estimated population
of 178,000, 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 2412, being 418 below the
number in 1888, and 525 below the decennial average corrected
for increase of population.
The death-rate, 13.5 per 1000, the lowest on record, was
2.4 below the rate in 1888, and 2'9 below the decennial average
(16.4). It was 8.9 below the rate in London, as a whole (17.4),
and 4'4 below the rate in England and Wales (17.9).
The death rate in London shews a decrease of l.l upon that
of 1888 (18.5), and is the lowest on record. The rate in
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