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during the year amounted to 2404. Table B* may be consulted
for the numbers registered in each Sub-Registration District. I
may remind readers of this Report that on and after the first day
of January the Sub-District of Aldgate became merged into that
of Goodman's Fields.
From the total deaths must be deducted the deaths, numbering
746, of persons not belonging to the District, although they were
resident in the District at the date of death. It will be seen from
the Appendix Tables that nearly all such deaths took place in the
London Hospital. Again the District must be credited with the
deaths of those Residents who died in Public Institutions, and
elsewhere, outside the Whitechapel District. Such deaths to the
number of 220 are also set out in detail. It follows therefore that
the correct total District deaths amounted to 1878, or corrected to
equal a year of 52 weeks, to 1843.
In the year 1891, the correct total deaths numbered 1839, a
difference of four as compared with the present year. The deathrate
therefore was again 24.7 per 1000. The natural increase of births
over deaths was 1233 or an increase of nine as compared with the
preceding year. Table Ft of the Appendix shows the ages at
death of the Residents who died during the year.
The Precentage of Deaths for each Age period was
as follows:—
25.9 %of the total deaths took place under the age of 1 year
18.5 ,, between the ages of 1 and 5.
5.8„ „ „ 5 and 20.
12.5 „ „ 20 and 40.
18.4,, ,, ,, 40 and 60.
15.9,, ,, 60 and 80.
2.7„ „over the age of 80.
Compared with the Metropolitan deaths, including Whitechape),
I iiote that the infant deaths were as follows:—
The deaths of infants under the age of one year, in
London equalled 22-9 per cent, of the total deaths, and i4'7 per
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