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75
As this number does not accurately represent the deathrate,
it must be corrected by adding the 199 deaths of
parishioners in hospitals, asylums, &c., situated outside the
District, and by deducting the 65 deaths of nonparishioners,
in public institutions inside the District, viz ,
26 at the French Hospital, Shaftesbury Avenue, two at
the British Lying-in-Hospital, Endell Street, and 37 at the
Parish "Workhouse, Endell Street.
With these corrections the deaths for the three registration
Sub-districts are:—
St. George, Bloomsbury 187
St. Giles, South 350
St. Giles, North 139
Total 676
This number gives one death in 65.8 of the population,
and is equal to an annual death-rate of 17.6 per 1,000, the
average death-rate for ten years being 21.7, it is apparent
that the death-rate last year was 4.1 per 1,000 lower than
the decennial average 1887-96.
The death-rate of the parish of St. Giles-in-the-Fields
was 22.0 per 1,000, being 10.4 per 1,000 higher than the
rate of St. George, Bloomsbury.
The 163 deaths at the Workhouse, and at Cleveland
Street Sick Asylum largely contributed to this heavy
death-rate.
In all London the registered deaths were 80,943 equal
to an annual death-rate of 18.2 per 1,000.
In England and Wales the 541,426 deaths registered
in 1897 were equal to a death-rate of 17.4 per 1,000,