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POPULATION.
Our population, floating and on terra firma, enumerated in accordance with the
plan of the Registrar-General, to the end of June 1878, amounted to 33,20.3, figures
which bear to the estimated population of the Inner Metropolitan Ring a ratio of about
one to one hundred and eight.
The density was 37.4 per acre.
BIRTHS, MARRIAGES, AND DEATHS.
1380 Births, 22.5 Marriages, and 766 Deaths were registered in the Parish. The
three public Institutions (the River, the Docks, and the St. Olave's Workhouse),
increased our gross Mortality by the entry of several (140) Non-parishioners.
BIRTH RATE.
The Birth-rate was 41.5 per thousand annually*, more by '.2 per thousand than that of
preceding year, and by 5.0 than the average of last decenniad. This shows a population
augmenting, and is an improvement on the time of the commencement of the "Bills of
Mortality." when the Births and Deaths were equal.
MARRIAGE RATE.
The annual Marriage Rate was 6.4 per thousand; 2.9 below the 1877 Rate, and
below the previous ten years' average.
This is one of the many evidences of commercial depression we must all have
noticed.
VARIOUS DEATH RATES.
The gross death-rate was 23.2 per thousand per annum, hut the large number of
Don residential deaths recorded (owing to the reception of Paupers from other
Districts into the St. Olive's Workhouse, the frequent accidents occurring to Strangers
in the Docks, and the many bodies from the Thames which you have to receive and
inter,) greatly reduced this, and, following the method pursued by both my predecessors,
I have computed the "corrected death-rate of 1878, as 18.8 per thousand.
* Any "rate per thousand" can at once be converted to "rate per cent." simply moving the decimal
point one place to the left; and conversely the "rate per cent." may be altered to "rate per thousand " by
moving the decimal point one place to the right.