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The death rate was 14.5 per 1,000.
The number of deaths in Public Institutions amounted
to 165, an increase of 21 on the previous year.
Lewisham Workhouse 139 deaths.
St. John's Hospital, Blackheath 13
Lower Sydenham Home for Sick
Children 8 „
North Surrey District Schools 1 „
Waterman's Asylum, Penge 4 „
During the same period the death rate in England and
Wales, which in the ten consecutive years (1881-90) had not
risen above 19.7 per 1,000, and had averaged 191, rose to
20.2 per 1000, which is, however, lower than the rate recorded
in any year prior to 1881.
The death rate in London for 1891 was 21.4 per 1,000.
The rate in the immediately preceding year had also been
21.4; but, with this exception, the rate in 1891 was higher
than in any year since 1882.
The death rate of the "Outer King" of suburban districts,
with a population of close on a million and a-half was
15.2 per 1,000.
The death rate in the twenty-eight great towns, with
a population of nearly nine and a-half millions, averaged
22.5 per 1,000, ranging from 18.2 per 1,000 in Brighton to
27.3 per 1,000 in Preston.
Zymotic Disease.
The number of deaths from Zymotic Disease was 98
as compared with 136 in the previous year, thus being 38
less than 1890.