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( 48)
This birth-rate is 1.1 above the decennial average.
The excess of registered births over deaths was 528.
The birth-rate for London was 34-3 per 1,000.
The birth-rate in England and Wales was equal to 33.7
per 1,000 persons living.
Deaths and Death-rate.
1,010 persons died in the District during the past year,
496 males and 514 females. Of these 765 belonged to the
parish of St. Giles in the Fields, and 245 to the parish of
St. George, Bloomsbury.
The deaths registered in the three Sub-Districts were:—
St. George, Bloomsbury 245
St. Giles, South 516
St. Giles, North 249
Whole District 1,010
From this total, 44 deaths of non-parishioners at the
Workhouse, the British Lying-in Hospital, and the
Infants' Home, must be deducted; and the deaths of 157
parishioners added who died out of the District in the
General Hospitals and Institutions of the Metropolitan
Asylum District Board.
These corrections will give a death-rate of 24-0 per
1.000, as will be shown in the following table.