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the death rate for the whole of London for the corresponding periods
being 22.3 for 1876, and 21.9 for 1877. I subjoin a comparative
table of the mortality for this Parish and the whole of London:—
TABLE C.
London.
Bethnal Green.
March Quarter
23.6
22.3
June „
22.2
24.0
September ,,
19.4
23.1
December ,,
22.4
22.7
As will be seen, this death rate of 23 per thousand is higher than
the general rate for the whole of London, and it is also an advance
on our own death rate for last year; but, as previously stated, this is
the first Annual Report for this Parish in which a true correction has
been made in the death rate. It is no use blinking matters, and
making everything as rose-coloured as possible; we want to know
exactly how we stand, and not how we should like to be. On the old
plan of calculation our death rate for the year, after excluding nonresidents,
would shew only 21.5, or, by including them, as is commonly
done by Health Officers, to compensate for the deaths of parishioners
in Hospitals, and at other places beyond the limits of the district,"
22.2, neither of which is probably as correct as the larger rate shewn
above. This, moreover, is considerably below the collective rate
for the eastern districts of the metropolis, which was 24.4.
ANNUAL BIRTH RATE.
The births during the year were 5,169, or 1 to every 25 of the
population, giving a rate of 39.8 per 1000 persons living; the rate for
the whole of London, for the corresponding period, being 36.1, a
difference of 37 per 1000.
DEATHS OF INFANTS,
(Under one year of age).
Of this number of 5,169 children, only 4,370 attained the age of
one year, 799 having died under twelve months of age, being at the rate
0f 154.5 per thousand births, or 6.1 per thousand population; in other