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There was one death to every 53.1 inhabitants.
The annual death-rate was equal to 18.7 per 1,000 ; this
rate, which is 4.8 per 1,000 lower than the decennial
average, is the lowest since 1887, when it was identical.
The death-rate for the parish of Bloomsbury is the
lowest of which I have any record.
The death-rate for St. Giles-in-the-Fields was one point
in excess of the previous year.
In Registration London, 77,039 deaths were equal to a
death-rate of 17.8 per 1,000.
In England and Wales, the 498,515 deaths were
equivalent to an annual death-rate of 16.6 per 1,000.
This death-rate was even more remarkable than the birthrate,
being not only the lowest ever recorded, but as much
as 1.5 per 1,000 under the lowest previous rate, viz., 18T
in 1888.
The death-rate in 1894 was also 2.6 per 1,000 below the
mean annual rate in the preceding ten years.
Infant mortality in London last year measured by the
proportion of deaths under one year of age to registered
births was equal to 143 per 1,000, and was below the
mean proportion in the ten preceding years:—
In the West group of Districts 142
„ North „ 121
„ East „ 161
„ South „ 131
„ Central „ 161
Infantile Mortality.