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in hammersmith there was an excess of 46 females. The birth
rate last year in the whole district was at the rate of 36.9 per
annum, per 1000 persons living", being one birth to 27.0 persons,
The birth rate in the whole of London was equal to 36.5 per annum,
per 1000 persons living. The births exceeded the deaths in this
district last year by 1698, and exceeded the number of births the
previous year by 347. Estimating that the population has increased
7000 in the year, 1698 of this number was due to excess of births,
and 5302 to immigration.

Of the so-called zymotic diseases, 460 deaths were registered;
but of these 81 were non-parishioners who had been removed to
the Fulham Small-pox Hospital by the Metropolitan Asylum Board
for the purpose of isolation. The corrected number therefore of
deaths from zymotic diseases was 379, as compared with 487, the
corrected number of deaths registered from the same class of
diseases during the previous year, These deaths last year were
equal to 16.7 per cent. of the total deaths registered, and were at
the rate of 3.5 per annum, per 1000 persons living. The deaths
from zymotic diseases in the whole of London were equal to 14.3
per cent. of the total deaths registered, and were at the rate of
3.3 per annum per 1000 persons living. Thus we see that there
was a decrease of 108 deaths from zymotic diseases as compared
with the previous year, notwithstanding the great increase in population.
The percentage of deaths from this class of diseases in
this district was slightly greater than that of the whole of London,
both as compared with the total number of deaths registered, and
with the total population. This is due chiffly to the very large
number of poor inhabitants in many portions of the district. Of
the 379 deaths from zymotic diseases there were 20 in St. Peter's,
against 16 the previous year; 146 in St. Paul's, against 227; and
213 in Fulham, against 224. Thus we see that there was an