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As I pointed out last year these conclusions are more in accordance
with the population of the several Sub-Districts than the
numbers registered by the registrars.
11. I will now give the mean Birth-rate of St. Giles District and
its Sub-Districts in the usual tabular form.

The mean annual Birth-rate for three years has been 30.3 per
1,000; the mean Birth-rate, therefore, for 1874 is a little below the
average.
The Death-Rate in St. Giles District.
12. The mean annual Death-rate must be ascertained by a similar
method to that employed for determining the Birth-rate. The corrections
are as complex as those in the case of the Birth-rate, but
are more difficult to make. This difficulty is owing to the facts
being derived from the Workhouse books, which, not being kept
with any reference to vital statistics, do not always afford data sufficiently
exact to work with. For example, there is no record in the
books of the "previous residence" of the patients who died in the
Highgate Infirmary; and inasmuch as the accuracy of these tables
depends upon the essential fact of "previous residence," it is
obvious that my corrections must be, to some extent, imperfect.
The following statement will, however, give a tolerably accurate
analysis of the deaths in the Workhouse.
13. The whole number of recorded deaths in the House, for the
year 1874, is 187, viz., 24 for St. George Bloomsbury, 84 for St.
Giles South, 35 for St. Giles North, 12 for the Strand, and 32
miscellaneous. Under the latter head I include persons who have
lived more than 12 months in the House, and who may be fairly
regarded as denizens of the House.
14. To these 187, must be added 29 deaths in Stockwell and