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DEATHS.
The number of deaths registered in the Parish during the year
was 2591, against 2857 in the previous year. This gives a
decrease of 266; moreover, it includes 141 non-parishioners who
have died in Bethnal Green Hospitals, but whose deaths must bo
excluded from the enumeration. On the other hand I have
received information from the General Register Office of the
deaths of 258 inhabitants of Bethnal Green in extra-parochial
Hospitals; these deaths must bo added, and they raise the net
total to 2708.
BIRTHS.
The births during the year were 4939, against 4936 in 1888,
an increase of three. The excess of the births over the deaths was
2231; this is 253 more than last year.
TABLE B.
1889.
1888.
Estimated population in the middle of the year
131,000
130,500
Total Births
4,939
4,936
Total Deaths
2,708
2,958
Excess of Births over Deaths, shewing the
natural increase of the Population
2,231
1,978
DEATH RATE.
Upon the basis of the estimated population, we shew a rate of
mortality of 20.67 for the year 1889. This is nearly two per
theusand below that of the year 1888; but it exceeds that of the
whole Metropolis, which was 17.1, and is also above that of the
Eastern districts of London, which was 19.6.
The rate in the West districts was 15.5, in the North 15.3, in
the South 16.7, and in the Central 26.5.
In the following table are compared the mortality rates for
Bethnal Green and for London by quarters.