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The number of deaths by these alterations is increased
to 1,035, corresponding to an annual death-rate for the
whole district of 22.8 per 1,000 of the population ; this rate
is 2.9 per 1,000 higher than the rate for 1889, but slightly
lower than the rate for the decade 1880-89. It is also 2.5
per 1,000 higher than the rate for London.
The death-rates for the two parishes were again unequal,
for whilst the rate for Bloomsbury was as low as 14.9 per
1,000, the rate for St. Giles-in-the-Fields was as high as
27.3 per 1,000.
There was again the same disproportion in the two subdistricts
of St. Giles-in-the-Fields, the number of deaths in
the southern division being 20.1 per 1,000 in excess of the
northern.
The heavy mortality in St. Giles, south, is again largely
accounted for by the 270 deaths of old people at the Workhouse
and the Cleveland Street Sick Asylum.