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giving an annual birth rate to these parishes of 40, 36 and 37 per 1,000
population respectively. Of the deaths 688 were of males, and 668 of
females; 656 were registered in Limehouse, 331 in Ratcliff, and
369 in Shadwell and Wapping, giving an annual death rate of 20.4,
20.5, and 35.5 to these parishes respectively; but inasmuch as the
East London Children's Hospital wherein 124 deaths of persons
resident outside the District, and 32 of persons resident in Limehouse
and Wapping were registered, is situated in Shadwell a
deduction of these 156 deaths must be made. This will reduce the
number of deaths in Shadwell and Wapping to 213, and give a
death rate to these parishes of 20.5 per 1,000 per annum. It will
thus be seen that the death rates of the parishes forming your
District are almost identical. To estimate the deaths in the District
we must deduct the 124 deaths above alluded to from the
1,356 deaths registered, and add to the remainder our share of
deaths which occurred in the Public Institutions of London. That
number this year amounts to 237. Therefore we have 1,356 — 124
— 1,232 + 237 = 1,469, which represents the total mortality of
your District for the year 1882.
Both Births and Deaths were in excess of, and Marriages below,
the average of the last ten years.
The Birth rate was 38.8 per 1,000 population, the average of
the last ten years being 36 per 1,000.
The Death rate was 25 per 1,000 population, the average of
the last ten years being 23.9 per 1,000.
The Birth rate of London was 34.3, and the death rate 21. 4
per 1,000 population.