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given in Table IV. These are furnished in Table
VIII; which also presents for comparison the deathrates
of 1882.

It will be observed that the Mortuary Rates
are all much lower than they were in the previous
year, which nevertheless was also a year of low
death-rates. They are lower in fact both for the subdistricts
and for the Parish, then they have ever
before been. I have already shewn that the deathrate
of London, for the same year, was the lowest
on record ; we may, therefore, safely assume that
our own unprecedentedly low death-rates are due
mainly to the same causes as have operated generally
throughout the Metropolis. But our own rates are so
exceptional that I cannot but suspect that a falacy
lurks somewhere. It may be, for instance, that the increase
of our population has been less rapid than it has
heretofore been, and that my estimates of population
may be too large This is a question, however,