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in St. Mary's and 155 in St. John's Sub-district. The 712
births were equivalent to an annual rate of 25.4 per 1,000 of
the estimated population of the parish. In London the
births were equal to an annual rate of 31.5 per 1,000.
Deducting from the total deaths (472) those of 52 nonparishioners—42
in St. Mary's Hospital, 9 in the Children's
Hospital, and 1 in the Lock Hospital—the corrected number of
deaths in the parish is seen to be 420. To this number must
be added the deaths of 20 parishioners in extra-parochial
hospitals and institutions within the metropolis, during the
same period, making a total of 440 deaths—239 males and
201 females—equivalent to an annual death-rate of 15.7 per
1,000 inhabitants.
The number of births and of deaths, together with the
birth and death rates in the parish and in its two sub-districts,
during the quarter, is shown in the subjoined table:—

In London the death-rate for the quarter was 18 2
In Edinburgh 15.5
In Glasgow 22.0
In Dublin 22.9
In England and Wales 16.5
In Paddington 15.7