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are a great many unoccupied houses. This is due in a
great measure to the supply of new houses being much greater
than the demand.
The number of deaths registered in this district last year was 2499
(males 1193 females 1306) being one death to every 50.0 of the population,
against 2473 in the previous year which equalled one death to
each 46.9. The average number of deaths registered during the past
10 years was 2052. Making allowance for the increase of population
the deaths last year were 113 below the corrected decennial
average. This mortality includes all the deaths registered in the
district. If however we deduct the 11 deaths of nonparishioners
that took place at the Western District Hospital at Fulham, allowing
the deaths of nonparishioners that took place at the West London
Hospital and other public institutions in the district as compensative
allowance for the unknown deaths of parishioners which may
have taken place in general hospitals and other public institutions
outside the district, the corrected mortality in this district last year
was 2488. The gross annual death-rate therefore taking the deaths
as registered was 19.9 per 1,000 persons living, being 1.5 less than
the death rate of all London, which was 21.4. The mean deathrate
in this district in the last 10 years was 20.8 while that in all
London during the same period was 22.1. Of the deaths registered
last year 132 took place in St Peter's 1247 in St Paul's and 1120
in Fulham, against 117 in St Peter's 1188 in St Paul's and 1168
in Fulham the previous year. The average number of deaths
registered in the three sub-districts during the last 10 years was
St Peter s 128 St Paul's 1027 and Fulham 897. There was therefore
last year as compared with the last decennial average an increase of
four deaths in St Peter's, 220 in St Paul's, and 223 in Fulham.
'This increase was due to the increase of population that has taken
place through immigration. The death-rate last year in all three
sub-districts was however lower than the mean death rate in the
last ten years.
TABLE I.
The following table shows the deaths registered in the three
sub-districts in the years 1881 and 1882, also the average number
in the ten years 1873-1882:—
Year.
Sub-d;istrict of
St. Peter's.
Sub-Distrct of
St. Paul's.
Sub-district of
Fulham.
1881
117
1188
1168
1882
132
1247
1120
Mean of the 10 years
1873-1882
128
1027
897
The number of deaths of infants at one year of age and under
was 766 against 707 in the previous year. There were 26 in St.
Peter's 394 in St Paul's and 346 in Fulham, against 35 in St Peter's
359 in St Paul's and 313 in Fulham during the previous year.