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expressed in the Census Report by the word "overcrowding,"
that is, more than two to a room.
BIRTHS.
The number of births registered for the whole Distx-ict
(which includes the united Parish of St, Olave and St.
Thomas and that of St. John), for the 52 weeks ending
Dec. 28th, 1895, was 430. Of this total, 204 were male
children and 226 female children. This gives a birth-rate
of 32 9 per thousand of the population. The birth-rates for
the five preceding years were 33.2, 32, 36.2, 37.8, and 30.3.
The birth-rate for Registration London for the year was 30.5.
Last year it was 30T, the lowest London birth-rate recorded,
this year being; the next lowest.
DEATHS.
The deaths registered as having actually occurred in the
District were 849 ; 593 of these took place at Guy's Hospital,
this number including only 17 deaths of parishioners, 576
belonging to other districts. At the Parish-street Workhouse
there were 40 deaths, only 5 of these belonging to the District.
Nine bodies were found in the Thames, all non-parishioners.
Four other non-parishioners died in the District.
The deaths of 77 parishioners were returned from outlying
public institutions.
After making the necessary corrections, it is found that
302 deaths of parishioners took place in the 52 weeks ending
December 28th, 1895.
The annual death-rate was, therefore, 23 1 per thousand.
The epidemic of influenza during the first quarter of the