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91
1888-89.
MEDICAL OFFICER'S
ANNUAL REPORT.
Gentlemen,
During the last few years, as the Registrar General
shows, the birth-rate, the death-rate, and the marriage-rate
have all been falling. This general tendency to fall was
maintained in the year 1888.
“The births registered in London in 1888 numbered
131,080, and were in the proportion of 307 to 1000
inhabitants. This is the lowest birth-rate recorded in
London since 1841, when the rate was 30.4. In 1876 the
rate was 35.9, but from that date it fell continuously year
after year.
“ The deaths registered in the year numbered 78,848, and
corresponded to an annual rate of 18.5 per 1000. This is far
the lowest death-rate as yet recorded in London; moreover,
the three next lowest are those in the three immediately preceeding
years, when the figures were successively 19.8,19.9,
and 19.6.
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