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1,000 living, being as much as 2.9 per 1,000 below the
average rate in the preceding 10 years.
The birth rate has now experienced a continous decline
since 1879. 1 hen it was 36.3, compared with which the rate
of last year shows a decline of no less than 18.2 per cent.
Deaths.
The number of deaths registered in the District for
the year 1890 was 1,320, being 194 more than the number
registered during the previous year, when the death rate was
unprecedentedly low.
Males 639
Females 681
The death rate was 13.9 per 1,000.
The number of deaths in Public Institutions amounted
to 144, an increase of 5 on the previous year.
Lewisham workhouse 96 deaths.
St. John's Hospital, Blackheath 17 „
Koine for Sick Children, Sydenham . 10 „
North Surrey District Schools 12 „
AVaterman's Asylum, Penge 9 ,,
During the same period the death rate in England and
Wales, which in the two previous years had been unprecedentedly
low, viz., 17.8 and 17.9, rose to 19.2. This rate,
however, is lower than that of any year prior to 1881.
The death rate of London was 20.3. This rate was
higher than any one of the five preceding years, and was an
interruption to the almost unbroken fall in the London mor-