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St Luke 1895
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for St. Luke, Middlesex]
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London Lying-in Hospital, but as only 47 of the mothers were
permanent residents of the Parish of St. Luke, a deduction of
432 has to be made from the total number, leaving 1476 as the
actual number of Births to be credited to the Parish, and after
allotting 47 to the several districts of the Parish in which the
parents resided, the Births of the respective sub-districts were as
follows:—
In the City Road Sub-registration District there were 1124.
In the Whitecross Street Sub-registration District there
were 261. and in the Finsbury Sub-registration District there were 91.
In relation to the estimated population the figures stand as under:—
| Births per 1000 Inhabitants. | |
|---|---|
| For the whole Parish | 34.18 |
| City Eoad Sub-registration District | 36.25 |
| Whitecross Street „ „ | 33.27 |
| Finsbury „ „ | 21.03 |
After a series of years during which there had been a steady
decline in the number of Births, an increase took place during
the year 1894, and the same occurred even to a greater extent
during the past year, as is shown in the Table below. This increase
is found to concern chiefly the City Road District, and
in which there now exists 36 Blocks of Artizans Dwellings,
accommodating 845 families, and an estimated population of
3802 persons.
The number of Births belonging to the Parish tor the past five years and rate per 1,000 of the population.
| Births. | Rate per 1000. | |
|---|---|---|
| 1891 | 1533 | 36.14 |
| 1892 | 1478 | 34.89 |
| 1893 | 1420 | 33.18 |
| 1894 | 1432 | 33.34 |
| 1895 | 1476 | 34.18 |
The Metropolitan Birth-rate for the year 1895 equalled 30.5
per 1,000. With the single exception of the year 1894 this is
the lowest birth-rate recorded for London.
The increased number of births over deaths during the year
1895 amounted to 260, a knowledge of which fact assists in
forming an estimate of the population, as already indicated.