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calculation. On the other hand as an unknown number of our ordinary
residents have undoubtedly died in the various London Hospitals we
must add an estimate of these. We are informed by the RegistrarGeneral
that, during the year 1879, 15,854 persons died in the public
Hospitals of London, an average rate of 4.3 per thousand population.
At this rate our proportion should be 573; but as only 383 inhabitants
died during 1878 in the Bethnal Green Hospitals, 190,—the difference
between 383 and 573,—must be added, making the total number of
deaths 3069, against 3040 last year. The births during the corresponding
period were 5246, against 5159 in the previous year; the
excess of the births over the deaths being 22 greater than last year, as
shewn by the tabular form below.
TABLE B.
1878.
1879.
Estimated population in the middle
of the year
132,000
133,300
Total Births
5,195
5,246
Total Deaths
3,040
3,069
Excess of Births over Deaths, shewing
the natural increase of the
population.
2,155
2,177
ANNUAL DEATH RATE.
From these figures we calculate an annual rate of mortality for the
year 1878 of 23.0 per thousand, against a precisely similar rate for
last year and the year before that. The corresponding rates for the
whole of London being 23.5 in 1878, and 23.3 in 1879.
The following table shews the comparative mortality for Bethnal
Green and for all London by quarters.
TABLE C.
London.
Bethnal Green.
March Quarter
27.1
26.7
June „
22.4
21.0
September „
18.4
19.6
December „
24.9
24.6