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The number of births in the District during the year
has been 1702, rather less than in 1873, and the rate also
still lower. The birth rate in London was 35.7 per 1000 for
the year; in this District it was only 31.28 per 1000. The
variation, year by year, is very slight, and is shown for the
last five years in the following table.
NUMBER AND RATE OF BIRTIIS.
1870.
1871.
1872.
1873.
1874.
No.
Rate.
No.
Rate.
No.
Hato.
No.
Rate.
No.
Rate.
1668
33.06
1674
31 46
1693
3189
1779
3266
1762
31*28
The number of deaths in the year has been 842, against
791 in 1873, and the death rate has been 15.03 per 1000
against 14.52 per 1000 in 1873.
The number of deaths and rate of mortality per 1000
for the past five years is shown by the following table.
NUMBER AND RATE OF DEATHS.
1870.
1871.
1872.
1873.
1874.
No.
Rate.
No.
Bate.
No.
Bate.
No.
Bate.
No.
Bate.
806
17.00
816
16.29
788
14.84
791
14.52
842
15.03
By refcrenco to Table II. in the Medical Officer's Report,
it will bo seen that not only is the present rate of mortality
lower than the average of the previous ten years, but it has
only been as low in three years of that period.
Tho unprecedentedly low rate of mortality in London,
for the year 1873, has been again realised for the past year,
within a fraction, being in 1873 21.5 per 1000, and in 1874
21.6 per 1000.
Not only is the rate of mortality in this District very
favourable as compared with London, but also as compared