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of Births over Deaths was 52,285, the average increment for the
previous 10 years having been 48,024 per annum.
Deaths.
The Deaths from all causes registered during the year, belonging
to St. Luke, numbered 1,047, and includes 396 parishioners who
died in Institutions outside the Parish, but is exclusive of 128
non.parishioners who died within our parochial boundary. Of
the 1,047 parishioners, 528 were males and 519 were females, a
number which yields upon the estimated population a Death.rate
equal to 25.36 per 1,000 persons living, being a slight decrease

The Metropolitan Death.rate for the year was equal to 18*2
per 1,000 of the population, being one of the lowest London
Death.rates hitherto recorded.
Infant Mortality : Of the 1,047 deaths of parishioners, 458, or
43'7 per cent., occurred to infants under 5 years of age.
Mortality over 65 years of age:—177 parishioners were over
65 at the time of death, being at the rate of 16.8 per cent. of the
total deaths recorded.
The 128 deaths of non.parishioners occurred at the following
Hospitals and other places in the Parish
Royal Hospital for Diseases of the Chest 88
City of London Lying.in Hospital 17
St. Luke's Hospital for Lunatics 13
St. Mark's Hospital for Fistula .. 4
Sudden Death in the Street from Heart Disease 1
,, „ at Hotels in Finsbury 3
,, ,, in an Omnibus from Apoplexy 1
,, ,, in Sailing Barge on Canal 1
128