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The natural increase of population by excess of births over
deaths was 352,464.
The resident population of the United Kingdom in the middle of
the year was estimated at 34,505,043.
Deaths and Death-rate.
During the four quarters of 1880, there were 1114 deaths in the
District, 591 males and 523 females.
The deaths registered in the three Sub-Districts were as follows:—
St. George, Bloomsbury 289
St. Giles, South 532
St. Giles, North 293
Whole District 1,114
and equal to a death-rate of 20.8 per 1000.
This statement of registered deaths is open to the same objection
as that of the births, and must therefore be similarly dealt with, viz.,
by deducting 51 deaths of non-parishioners who died in the
Workhouse, Broad Street; the British Lying-in-Hospital, Endell
Street; and the Infants' Home, Great Coram Street; and by adding
the deaths of 205 parishioners who died in public hospitals and
institutions for the sick, belonging to the Managers of the Metropolitan
Asylums District Board, situated out of the district.
These important corrections increase our number of deaths by 154
and give an actual death-rate of 23'7 per 1000, being an addition of
no less than 31 per 1000 to the rate of deaths registered in the District.
The ratio of deaths to population is as 1 to 421. The average
death-rate for the ten years, 1870-9, being 23.9 and equal to 1 in 418
of the population. It is satisfactory to find the death-rate for the
past year somewhat below it.
I have tabulated below the deaths in the several public institutions,
situated in and out of the District, and have also given the corrected
death-rate, &c., for the District and the Sub-Districts.