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Total 566, as compared with 473 in the previous year,
which was the lowest number recorded since 1880.
The marriage rate was equal to 131 per 1,000.
In London the marriage rate was 16.2, tho lowest yet
recorded, though it has been on the decrease every year
since 1883.
For England and Wales it was 14.1.
Table I. gives the estimated population, the number of
inhabited houses, and tho births, deaths, and marriage which
have taken place in the District during the yrur l887 and
the 10 previous years.
Table II. gives the annual rate of mortality, death rates
amongst children, and death rates at the public institutions
in the District for the same periods.
Table III. gives the deaths registered at several groups
of ages from different causes during the year.
Table IV. gives the mortality from certain classes of
diseases, and the proportion to population, and to 1,000
deaths in 1887.
Table V. gives the number of deaths in the 10 years,
1877 to 1886 inclusive, from the seven principal zymotic
diseases, and the number in the year 1887.
Table VI. The Inspectors' Report of sanitary work
completed during the year.
Table "VII. gives the number of inhabited houses, the
estimated population in 1887, with the birth and death rates
in the Registrar s bub-districts in the Lowisham Parish, and