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DEATH RATE.
The deaths from all causes, registered in Lambeth during the
year 1889 were 5131, of these 2510 were males and 2621
females. This number includes the deaths of 436 persons who
had been removed to the Hospitals situate in Lambeth, but who
previously lived in other parishes of the .Metropolis; on the other
hand, 289 parishioners died in the outlying institutions in the
Metropolis, and 73 parishioners died in extra Metropolitan institutions.
Having deducted the former and added the latter, the
number of deaths proper to Lambeth is 5057, representing a
death rale of 17*5 per 1000 persons living. The Metropolitan
rate for the same period being 17*4 per 1000.
In the Metropolis the registered deaths numbered 75,683,
and the rate was the lowest on record. Since the preterit system
of civil registration began, the death rate in the five great groups
of districts is as follows:—
South Districts 16.7
West Districts 15.5
Central Districts 26.5
North Districts 15.3
East Districts 19.6