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For the purpose of this and other calculations I have assumed that our
population amounts to 80,000. For reasons which I need not enter into, I
believe this estimation to be below the correct number. The Metropolitan
birth-rate equalled 29.5 per 1,000.
The total deaths which were registered during the year numbered 2,365,
viz.:—1,396 males, and 969 females. Table B* of the Appendix indicates
the deaths which were registered in the several Sub-Registration Districts.
A deduction has now to be made of those deaths to the number of 994,
which occurred among Non-Residents (mostly in the London Hospital);
and then to the remaining sum must be added the deaths of those Residents
who died in Outlying Public Institutions, and in other places outside
the District. These deaths numbered 210. The places where the deaths
were registered are tabulated in the Appendix as usual—Table Df. Thus
the corrected number of District deaths for the year 1897 was 1,581. 890
males died as compared with 691 females. A death-rate for the year of 19.7
per 1,000 is to be recorded, as compared with a Metropolitan death-rate of
18 per 1,000. Note the important fact that Whitechapel has year by year
lowered its death-rate.
I append a Table showing the correct number of District deaths for each
Sub-Registration District during the past ten years:-

The excess of births over deaths for the year 1897 was 1,548. In the
four preceding years it was for each year respectively, 1,554, 1,308, 1,568,
and 1,194.
The ages at death of the Residents who died during the year are recorded
in Table Ft of the Appendix.
The percentage of deaths for each Age period was as follows
29.2% of the total deaths took place under the age of 1 year.
14.9 „ ,, between the ages of 1 and 5.
4.3 ,, ,, ,, 5 and 20.
12.0 ,, ,, ,, 20 and 40.
18.7 „ „ „ 40 and 60,
17.7 „ „ „ 60 and 80.
2.3 ,, „ Over the age of 80.
Compared with the Metropolitan deaths, including Whitechapel, the
Infant deaths were as follows:-
The deaths of infants under the age of one year, in London, equalled 26 2
per cent. of the total deaths, and 15.9 per cent. of the registered births;
whilst in the Whitechapel District those Infants who died under the age of
one year equalled 28.4 per cent. of the total deaths, and 14.6 per cent. of
the registered births.
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