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TABLE C.
London.
Bethnal Green.
March Quarter
19.3
21.6
June Quarter
16.0
174
September Quarter
16.3
19.7
December Quarter
17.9
23.4
BIRTHS AND BIRTH RATE.
The number of births registered during the year was 4939, ft
rate of 37.7 per theusand of the population. This is a rate (0.12)
lower than that of last year, but still very considerably greater
than the General Metropolitan Rate, which was 30.3. The
Registrar General remarks that this is the lowest birth-rate as yet
recorded in London, the rate having fallen continuously year
after year since 1876.
I am indebted to the British Medical Journal for the following
extract:—
"The True Death-rates of London Sanitary
"Districts During 1889.
"In the accompanying table will bo found summarised the vital and
mortal statistics of the forty-one sanitary districts of the metropolis,
based upon the Registrar-General's returns for the year 1889. Quarterly
summaries of these statistics have already appeared in the Journal.
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 deaths occurring in the public
institutions of London among the various sanitary districts in which
the patients had previously resided. Thus the precise number of
deaths of persons actually belonging to the respective sanitary districts
is known; by this moans alone can trustworthy data be secured upon
which to calculate reliable rates of mortality.
"The 131,487 births registered in London during the year 1889
were equal to an annual rate of 30.3 per 1000 of the population, estimated
at 4,351,738 persons, which showed a further decline from the