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Of the 1,027 births registered during the year, 533
were males, and 494 females.
The excess of registered births over deaths was 281.
The annual birth-rate of the District was equal to 26.8
per 1,000; this rate was 1.2 per 1,000 lower than the
average rate of the decennial period 1888-97.
The birth-rate of the parish of St. Giles-in-the-Fields
was 35.8 being 21.3 per 1,000 higher than the rate for the
parish of St. George, Bloomsbury.
The birth-rate of the Peabody Buildings, Great Wild
Street (38.1) largely contributed to the high rate of the
parish of St. Giles-in-the-Fields.
In the whole of England and Wales the 922,873 births
were equal to a birth-rate of 29.4 per 1,000, which is lower
than that in any other year on record. (Registrar-General.)
The natural increase of population, by excess of
births over deaths, was 370,833.
In London the estimated population middle of 1898
was 4,504,766. The annual rate of Births per 1,000 of
the population was 29.5; the excess of Registered Births
over deaths was 48,496, and the estimated increase of
population during the year was 41,791.
Deaths and Death-rates.
626 deaths were registered in St. Giles during 1898.
Of these 325 were males, and 301 females.
This number will not give a true death-rate, and must
be altered by adding 205 deaths of parishioners in extraparochial
institutions, and by deducting the 85 deaths of
non-parishioners at the French Hospital, the Parish