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The Registrar-General says "The natural growth of the
population of London, that is to say, its increase irrespectively
of immigration and emigration, since the last Census,
has by itself been nearly at the rate of 1,000 per week."
The births in England and Wales were 889,815, and the
birth-rate was 33.2 per 1,000.
The births in the United Kingdom were 1,132,499, and
the birth-rate was 31.8 per 1,000.
Deaths and Death-rate.
The deaths of 1,006 persons were registered in 1883: of
these 522 were males, and 484 females; 791 belonged to
the parish of St. Giles-in-the-Fields, and 215 to the parish
of St. George, Bloomsbury.
The deaths registered in the three Sub-districts were :—
St. George, Bloomsbury 215
St. Giles, South 540
St. Giles, North 251
Whole District 1,006
Equal to a death-rate of 21.5 per 1,000.
This death-rate must be corrected by deducting 40
deaths of non-parishioners, who died at the workhouse,
Broad Street—the British Lying-in-hospital, Endell Street,
—and the "Infants' Home," 35, Great Coram Street; and
by adding the deaths of 164 parishioners, who died in the
public hospitals and institutions situated out of the district.
The information of these hospital deaths, which is now
supplied to me weekly from the Registrar-General's Office,
by order of your Board, is very valuable both for sanitary
and statistical purposes.