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The District birth-rate equalled 35.0 per 1,000.
The Metropolitan birth-rate equalled 29.2 per 1,000,
I have based those calculations which require it upon the assumed population
of 85,000 persons of all ages living in the District.
The total deaths which were registered during the year numbered 2,650,
viz. :—1,528 males, and 1,122 females.
Table B* of the Appendix shows the deaths which were registered in
each Sub-registration District. I am unable to contrast these results
accurately with those of previous years, so far as concerns separate
Districts, because a re-arrangement of Sub-registration Districts was
initiated by the Registrar General at the commencement of the year,
according to the plan recorded in my last Report.
A deduction has now to be made of those deaths to the number of
1,222, 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, or elsewhere outside the
District. These deaths numbered 216, against 203 for the previous year.
The places where the deaths were registered are tabulated in the Appendix
as usual—Table Dt.
The corrected number of District deaths for the year 1899 was 1,644,
or 68 more than was the case in 1898.
Males died to the number of 901; 743 females died. A death-rate for
the year of 19.3 per 1,000 is to be recorded, being .4 lower than was the
case in the preceding year.
The Metropolitan death-rate equalled 19.7 per 1,000 or 1.1 per 1,000
higher than was the case in 1898. It must be explained that these numbers
are taken from figures which have not been perfectly corrected in the
manner in which I have been able to correct our own District figures.
The excess of births over deaths for the year 1899 was 1,335. In the
four preceding years, it was for each year respectively, 1,532, 1,548, 1,554,
and 1,308.
The ages at death of the Residents who died during the year are recorded
in Table F§ of the Appendix.
The percentage of deaths for each Age period was as follows :—
26.6% of the total deaths took place under the age of 1 year.
13.6,, ,, between the ages of 1 and 5.
4.6,, ,, ,, 5 and 20.
13.0,, ,, ,, 20 and 40.
20.4,, ,, ,, 40 and 60.
18.4 ,, ,, ,, 60 and 80.
3.1,, ,, over the age of 80 years.
Compared with previous years it will be noticed that fewer infants, but
more old persons, died in 1899 than was the case in the previous year.
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 24.2
per cent. of the total deaths, and 16.6 per cent. of the registered births. In
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