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parishioners, which occurred in the General Hospitals and
Public Institutions situated outside the district, and by
deducting 27 deaths of non-parishioners, residents of the
Strand Union and other metropolitan parishes, who died in
the Workhouse, Broad Street.
These alterations increased the total number of deaths to
904.
The necessary corrections for the whole district and the
registration sub-districts will be seen in the table above.
The death-rate of St. Giles district for the year 1889
was therefore equal to 19.9 per 1,000 of the population, a
rate of 1.2 per 1,000 higher than that of the precedingyear,but
34 perl,000 lower than the average rate for the last ten years.
The death-rate for the parish of St. Giles-in-the-Fields was
22.8 per 1,000,almost identical with the rate for the year 1888.
The death-rate for the parish of St. George, Bloomsbury,
was as low as 14.9 per 1,000, and 1.2 per 1,000 lower than
that of the decennial average.
There was again the same remarkable difference in the rates
for the two divisions of the parish of St. Giles-in-the-Fields,
for whilst it was as high as 32.8 per 1,000 in the southern
part, it was only 11.9 in the north.
The senile mortality at the Workhouse and the Cleveland
Street Sick Asylum largely account for the high mortality in
St. Giles, South.
The deaths registered in London in 1889 numbered
75,683, and corresponded to an annual rate of 17.4per 1,000.
The Registrar-General states:—"This is by far the lowest
death-rate as yet recorded in London, the four next lowest
rates are those in the four immediately preceding years,
1885-6-7-8, when the figures were respectively, 19.8, 19.9,
19.6 and 18.5."
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