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196
1891-92.
MEDICAL OFFICER'S
ANNUAL REPORT.
Gentlemen,
According to the Registrar General's Annual Summary,
the population of London, estimated for the middle of the
year 1891 (the population, therefore, used in determining the
Metropolitan marriage-rate, birth-rate, and death-rate), was
4,221,452; the marriages during the year numbered 37.298;
the births, 134,003; and the deaths, 90,216.
The marriage-rate was 17'7 per 1,000, being higher
than in any year since 1883 ; the birth-rate was 31.8, being
considerably higher than that of the year immediately
preceding, but with this exception lower than that of
any other recorded year ; the death-rate was 21.4, which
was exactly equal to that of the year 1890, but was higher
than that of any other year since 1882.
Table I. shews the populations of London and of its five
groups of Districts, as ascertained at the censuses of 1881
and 1891 respectively.