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TABLE I.
The following Table shows the number of Births and Deaths, and
the Birth-rate and Death-rate, in each of the last 4 Quarters,
and for the whole year.
Quarter ending
Births.
Deaths.
Excess of Births
over Deaths.
Total
In
3 months.
Total.
In
3months.
Total.
In
3months.
June 28, 1873
673
6.66
476
4.71
197
1.95
Sept. 27, „
713
7.02
464
4.57
249
2.45
Dec. 27, 1874
668
6.54
480
4.70
188
1.84
March 28, „
779
7.59
567
5.52
212
2.07
For Year
2,833
27.48
1,987
19.27
846
8.21
The mortality of this parish during the year may
be considered low. A death-rate to the population of
19.27, compared with other places in England having
25 to 39 per 1,000, looks well in the face of returns
taken from the whole registration district.
The mortality, however, has considerable variations
in different streets and classes of population. Amongst
the squares and mansions it often ranges as low as
10 and 12 annually per 1,000 of the population, whilst
in the crowded streets of the North and South Wharf
Road district, the Hall Park district, and in the very
highly populated streets of the Harrow Road, near the
Lock Bridge, where every house is let in tenements to
more than one family, and frequently one family in
every room, the annual mortality reaches to 30 per
1,000 of the population, and upwards. The low mortality
in the first-mentioned class of houses is explained
by the fact that the domestic servants, contributing
nearly 40 per cent, of the population in these streets