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Our proportion at this rate would be 503; but as only 346 of our own
people did die in 1880 in Bethnal Green Hospitals, we must add on to
the total number of deaths of parishioners 157, the difference between
these two numbers, making a corrected total of 2914, against 3069 last
year.
The births during the corresponding period were 5201, against 5246
in the preceding year. The excess of the births over the deaths was 110
greater than the previous year, as is shown in the subjoined table.

On the 13th of February, at 55, Seabright street, Mrs. Wales, wife of
a tea cooper, gave birth to four children, two boys and two girls. The
girls were stillborn; the boys lived 46 and 69 hours respectively.
ANNUAL DEATH EATE.
Taking the Registrar-General's enumeration as the basis of our
calculation, we show an annual rate of mortality for the year 1880 of
23.0 per thousand, against a precisely similar rate for last year and the
two preceding years; in all of which, however, our population was
certainly over-estimated.
The corresponding rates for the whole of London were 23.3 in 1879,
and 22.2 in 1880; but as the population in London was under-estimated
by the Registrar-General, the death rate, as calculated upon the numbers
enumerated in the last census, was really only 21.5 per thousand.
The following table compares the mortality for London and for Bethnal
Green by quarters.