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THIRTY-SEVENTH ANNUAL REPORT
of the
MEDICAL OFFICER OF HEALTH,
Being for the Year 1892.
To the Vestry of the Parish of St. Mary Abbotts, Kensington.
Gentlemen,
The vital and mortal statistics in the present report
have, as usual, been compiled for the fifty-two weeks of the
Registration year, which, in 1892, terminated with the civil
year on the 31st December. In other respects, the report is
for the official year, ended March 25th, 1893.
In my report for 1891 I gave my reasons for believing
that the population of the parish, as enumerated in April,
1891, during the currency of the Easter holidays and the
Parliamentary vacation, was considerably below the true
normal number. At the same time, I stated that I had felt
it my duty to adopt the official figures for statistical purposes,
a course which involved the necessity of recasting all calculations
of birth and death rates, &c., for each of the preceding
ten years. I shall not repeat here the grounds for my opinion
as to the deficiencies of the Census figures: it will suffice to
refer to my previous report in which they are set out with all
needful detail,
B