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the Parish of Hammersmith, and 9,000 in the Parish of Fulham
against 12,879 in the Parish of Hammersmith, and 7,500 in the
Parish of Fulham in the middle of the previous year. During
the whole year therefore there was an increase of 2,121 in the
number of inhabited houses in the whole District. On the estimated
population in the middle of last year, there was an average
of 35.1 persons to each acre in this District, while there was an
average of 53.4 persons to each acre in the whole of London. A
great many new houses have been constructed and occupied in
the past year, but the increase in the population has not been as
great as might have been expected under the circumstances.
DEATHS.
The number of deaths registered in this District during the
53 weeks ending January the 3rd, 1885, was 2,737—males 1,361,
females 1,376, being one death to every 51.3 inhabitants against
2,607 in the previous year, which equalled one death to each 52.9
inhabitants. Deducting the deaths of non-parishioners which
occurred at the West London Hospital, the Western District
Hospital at Fulham, and the Fulham Union Infirmary, and
adding the number of deaths of parishioners of this District
which occurred in general hospitals and other public institutions
in other Districts of London, the corrected number of deaths of
parishioners of this District which occurred last year was 2,683.
The average number of deaths registered in this District in the
past ten years was 2,283. Making an allowance for the increase
in the population, the deaths last year were 126 below the
corrected decennial average. The above figures represent the
total number of deaths as registered in the District. The
annual death rate, taking the deaths as registered, was 194
deaths per 1,000 persons living, being 9 less than the death rate
ot London, which was 20.3. The mean death rate in this District
in the last ten years (1875-1884) was 20.5 while that in all
London during the same period was 217. The corrected death
rate of parishioners of this District which occurred last year was
19.1, being 12 less than the death rate in London during the
same period. Of the deaths registered last year 129 took place
in St. Peter's, 1,249 St. Paul's, and 1,339 in Fulham, against
108 in St. Peter's. 1,262 in St. Paul's, and 1,237 in Fulham in the
previous year. The average number of deaths registered in the
three Sub-Districts during the last ten years was, St. Peter's 125,
St. Paul's 1,120, and Fulham 1,278. There was therefore last
year as compared with the last decennial average, and making no
allowance for the increase in population, an increase of 4 deaths