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tutions outside the district, the corrected mortality for last
year was 2250. The gross annual death rate therefore taking
the deaths as registered (2,473) was 21.3 per 1,000 persons living,
being .1 greater than the death rate of all London which was
21.2. The corrected mortality rate for this district was 19.3,
being 1.9 less than that of all London. Of the deaths registered
in this district last year 117 took place in St. Peter's, 1,188 in St.
Paul's, and 1.168 in Fulham, against 120 in St. Peter's, 1,158 in
St. Paul's, and 939 in Fulham, the previous year. The average
number of deaths registered in the three sub-districts during the
last five years was, St. Peter's 124, St. Paul's 1079, and Fulham
1,008. There was therefore, last year, as compared with the
average mortality during the last five years, a decrease of 7
deaths in St. Peter's, an increase of 109 deaths in St. Paul's, and
an increase of 160 deaths in Fulham. The increase in the
number of deaths in St. Paul's is to be accounted for by the very
cold winter, and by the increase of population through immigration.
The increase in the number of deaths in Fulham was due
to the large number of deaths of non-parishioners (223) which
took place at the Metropolitan Asylum Small-pox Hospital at
Fulham. When we take into consideration the fact that a very
severe epidemic of small-pox existed last year, through which 44
deaths of parishioners were registered in this district, and when
we consider the great increase in the population that has taken
place, we can have no difficulty in perceiving the cause of a
slight increase in the number of deaths registered.
TABLE I.
The following table shows the deaths registered in the three
sub-districts in the years 1880-1881, also the average number
in the five years 1877-1881:—
Year.
Sub-district of
Fulham.
Sub-district of
St. Paul's.
Sub-district of
St. Peter's.
1880
939
1158
120
1881
1168
1188
117
Average of 5 years
1877-1881
1008
1079
124
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The number of deaths of infants at one year of age and under
was 707, against 652 in the previous year. There were 35 in St.
Peter's, 359 in St. Paul's, and 313 in Fulham, against 26 in St.
Peter's, 33.1 in St. Paul's, and 295 in Fulham, during the previous
year. These deaths were equal to 28.6 per cent. of the total
deaths registered, and 15.7 per cent. of the total registered births.