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BIRTHS AND BIRTH RATE.
The number of births registered during the year was 4989, a rate
of 38.41 per thousand population, this is a lower rate than that of
last year, but considerably above that for London, which was 31.7.
The Registrar-Greneral remarks in his Annual Summary for 1887:
"This is the lowest rate recorded since 1849, when the recorded rate
was also 31.7, but, at that period, the registration of births was far
from oomplete, so that probably the rate recorded in 1887 was really
the lowest since oivil registration began. In 1876 the rate was
35.9, but from that date it has fallen continuously year by year."
On August 13th, a triple birth oocurred in Tuscan Street, two
males and one female were all born alive, the males lived three days
and the female four days.
I am indebted to the British Medical Journal for the following
extract:—-
"The True Deatii-Rates of London Sanitary Districts
"during 1887.
In the accompanying table, will be found summarised tbe vital and mortal
statistics for 1887 of the forty sanitary districts of the metropolis. The
mortality figures in the table relate to the deaths of persons actually belonging
to the respective sanitary districts, and are the result of a complete system of
distribution of the deaths occurring in the public institutions of London, among
the various sanitary districts in which the patients had previously resided. By
this means, the precise number of deaths of persons belonging to the different
sanitary districts is known; as all deaths, occurring in institutions of persons
who had previously resided in another sanitary district, have been excluded
from the total deaths in the district in which the institution is situated, and