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THIRTY-FIFTH ANNUAL EE PORT
op the
MEDICAL OFFICER OF HEALTH,
Being for the Year 1890.
To the Vestry of the Parish of St. Mary Abbotts, Kensington.
Gentlemen,
The vital and mortal statistics in the following report
are for the registration year ended January 3rd, 1891, a period of
53 weeks, and are calculated upon an estimated population of
179,500, a total based on data furnished by the census of 1881
corrected, as far as practicable, by the number of inhabited
houses.
The deaths registered in the 53 weeks were 2951, being 539
above the number registered in 1889; and, including 74 registered
in the 53rd week, were 85 above the decennial average corrected
for increase of population.
The deaths corresponded to an annual rate of 16.1 per 1000
of the estimated population, or 0.2 above the decennial average
(15.9). The rate in 1889 was 13'5 only and the lowest on
record. The death-rate in London was 20.3 per 1000, or 0.3
above the decennial average; 2.9 above the rate in 1889 (17'4),
which was the lowest on record, and 4.2 above the rate in
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