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Lunatic Asylums, and other Public Institutions situated
outside the District, must be added.
These corrections increase the total number of deaths to
919, and are set forth in the table above, where it will be
seen that there was one death in every 43.2 of the
population.
The death-rate for St. Giles District was equal to 23.1 per
1,000, being 4.3 per 1,000 lower than the rate for the preceding
year, and 0.1 lower than the rate for the ten years.
The death-rate of the parish of St George, Bloomsbury,
16.7 per 1,000, was 10.9 per 1,000 lower than that of St.
Giles-in-the-Fields; but in comparing the differences of the
death-rates in the two parishes it must not be forgotten
that the birth-rate of St. Giles parish was 15.0 per 1,000 in
excess of that of Bloomsbury.
The death-rate for the parish of St. Giles-in-the-Fields,
though as high as 27.6 per 1,000, shows a considerable
reduction upon that for the year 1891, when it was as high
as 33.9 per 1,000.
In London there were 87,749 deaths, equal to a deathrate
of 20.6 per 1,000, a rate 1.2 lower than the one
recorded for the previous year. The rates for the three
successive years have been raised considerably by the outbreaks
of influenza.*
In England and Wales there were 559,090 deaths, corresponding
to an annual death-rate of 19.0 per 1,000, and
0.3 per 1,000 below the mean rate of the ten years 1882-91.
* The total deaths ascribed to influenza in the three years being 5252, whereas in
the ten preceding years it had been only 63 (Registrar-General).