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79
1884-85.
MEDICAL OFFICER'S
ANNUAL REPORT.
Gentlemen.
In my last annual report I remarked that the year
1883, judged of by its death-rate, was the healthiest year
that London had experienced since mortuary returns have
been recorded. The year which has just elapsed, judged
by the same standard, appears to have been even healthier
than 1888. The difference no doubt is small, for the Registrar
General makes the death-rate of 1883 to have been
20.5 per 1000, and that of 1884 20.3 per 1000. But the
death-rate for 1883 is calculated on the deaths occurring
in a year of 365 days; whilst that for 1884 is calculated
on the deaths accruing in a year of 53 weeks or 371 days.
And hence the mortality for 1884 is relatively more favorable
than the estimated death-rates shew.
The populations of London, and of the five groups of
districts, into which it is divided, as determined at the
census of 1881, were as follows:—