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Daring the year 2,680 births were registered in the parish,
viz.:—Males 1,395, and females 1,285, being at the annual rate of
38.28 per 1,000 persons living. The annual rate throughout the
Metropolis during the same period was 32.3. The births registered
during the first quarter of the year were the highest, viz., 753, and
during the third quarter the lowest, viz., 637.
There were 1,355 deaths registered during the year, viz., males
677 and females 678. Eighty-five of these were of non-parishioners.
Forty-seven deaths of parishioners were registered in public institutions
outside the parish. Deducting the deaths of non-parishioners
and adding those of parishioners occurring out of the parish, the
deaths were equivalent to 18.1 per 1,000; the death rate throughout
the Metropolis was 19. per 1,000.
Of the deaths, 434 were of children under one year, and 255
of persons of 60 years and upwards.
ZYMOTIC DISEASES.
Two hundred and fifty-five deaths were attributable to diseases
of this class, being 18.2 per cent, of the total number of deaths,
viz.:—
Measles
57
Scarlet Fever
40
Diphtheria
12
Whooping Cough
50
Enteric Fever
13
Diarrhœa
81
Cholera
2
I shall refer to these diseases more fully when treating of the
Sanitary Statistics.
Eighty-nine inquests were held during the year. 39 were
certified as from violence. I append a list marked "D," of all
those which occurred since my appointment from 26th March, 1886.
Two hundred and twenty-eight deaths occurred in public institutions,
and four were registered as uncertified. Of the deaths in
public institutions, 187, viz., males 102, and females 85, occurred
in the Fulham Workhouse; 2 in the Female Convict Prison, Ful-
ham; and 39, viz., males 22 and females 17, in the Western
Asylums Hospital.
The Birth Rate throughout the whole Metropolis was equal
to 32. per 1,000 persons, and the Death Rate 19.9 per 1,000
persons. In the three previous years the death rate was 20.4
20.4, and 19.8 respectively.