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1892-93.
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 1892 (the population, therefore, used in the determination
of the metropolitan marriage-rate, birth-rate, and death-rate),
was 4,363,294. The marriages numbered 37,175; the births
131,535 ; and the deaths 87,749.
The marriage-rate was 17.4 per 1,000, being lower by .3
than that of the previous year ; the birth-rate was 30.9, being
the lowest birth-rate as yet recorded in London, with the
single exception of the year 1890, when the rate was only 30. 7 ;
the death-rate was 20.6. "This last rate was an improvement
upon those of the two next preceding years, 1890 and 1891,
in which it had been 21.4 and 21.1 respectively, but with
these exceptions was higher than for some years previously;
the rate for these three successive years having been raised
considerably by the outbreak of influenza.
Table I. shews the populations of London and of its five
groups of districts, as ascertained at the censuses of 1881
and 1891 respectively.