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DEATHS.
The total number of deaths registered during the year from all
causes was 2886, but of these 98 were non-residents, that is to say
that though actually dying in Bethnal Green they were inhabitants of
other parishes, who had applied for treatment and been admitted as
in-patients at some of the hospitals within our boundaries ; these 98
deaths must therefore be excluded; but as, on the other hand, a
certain number of people belonging to Bethnal Green die in hospitals
in various parts of London, it is only fair to add on a proportion of
such deaths. 14,805 deaths occurred during the year 1877 in the
various public institutions of the metropolis, and as the population for
the year was estimated at 3,533,484, we get an Hospital death rate
of 4.1 per 1000 persons living, and a proportionate number of 543
for the estimated population of our parish. Only 342 of these deaths,
however, were registered in Bethnal Green (after deducting the nonresidents)
and 201, the difference between 342 and 543, must therefore
be added on, which will bring our corrected number of deaths up to
2989 against 2923, the corrected number for the previous year; the
births during the same period being 5169 against 5299 in 1876.
The excess of births over deaths is less by 196 in the present year
than in 1876, as is shewn by the annexed table:—
TABLE B.
1876.
1877.
Estimated population in the
middle of the year
128,100
129,600
Total Births
5.299
5,169
Total Deaths
2,923
2,989
Excess of Births over Deaths,
shewing the natural increase of
the population
2,376
2,180
ANNUAL DEATH RATE.
Taking these figures as the basis of our calculation, we shew an
annual death rate for 1877 of 23.0 per thousand against 22.8 last year