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TABLE B.
1888.
1887.
Estimated Population in the middle of the year
130,500
129,895
Total Births
4036
4989
Total Deaths
2958
2917
Excess of Births over Deaths, shewing the
natural increase of the Population
1978
2072
DEATH RATE.
Upon the basis of the population, as estimated, we shew a death
rate of 22.65 for the year 1888. This is a fraction above that of
the previous year, and greatly exceeds that of the whole Metropolis.
It is also above that of the Eastern districts of London,
which was 21.1, the rate in the West districts was 16.9, in the
North, 16.4, in the South, 17.3, and in the Central, 27.2.
The general Metropolitan death rate for 1888 (18.5) is far the
lowest as yet recorded; moreover, the three next lowest are the
three immediately preceding years, 1885-6-7, when the figures
were successively 19.8, 19.9, and 19.6.
In the following table are compared the mortality rates for
London and for Bethnal Green by quarters.
TABLE C.
London.
Bethnal Green.
March Quarter
22.0
28.2
June ,,
16.9
18.3
September ,,
16.2
17.8
December ,,
19.8
26.7