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excite very little alarm, although they carry off one
hundred and twenty thousand persons. The Tubercular
or wasting diseases, the great consuming plague of the
British Islands, take off another hundred thousand,
chiefly persons in the prime of life. Lastly, amongst
the class of deaths to which I always give great
prominence, is Infant mortality, or the excessive deathrate
in young children under 5 years of age.
Tables II., III., IV., indicate the annual loss of life
from each of these causes in this parish, and Table V.
shows the total result during the last eight years.
TABLE I.
The following Tables shows the number of Births and Deaths
during the last 4 Quarter:—
Quarter ending
Births.
Deaths.
Excess of Births
over Deaths.
Total.
Rate for
3months
per 1,000
Total.
Rate for
3 months
per 1,000
Total.
Rate for
3 months
per 1,000
June 27, 1874
709
6.7
462
4.4
247
2.3
Sept. 26, „
720
6.9
405
3.9
315
3.0
Dec. 26, 1875
696
6.6
508
4.8
188
1.8
March 27, „
797
7.5
599
5.6
200
1.9
Total for Year
2,924
27.7
1,974
18.7
950
9.0
From this Table we find the death-rate 18.7 to be
very low for a town population; but a more detailed
examination of the rate in different localities, shows
how essential it is to take smaller areas. The large
registration sub-district which this is, being a part of
Kensington, now above 100,000, is no longer