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Table No. i. Rotherhithe Sanitary District.
Table shewing the Population, Inhabited Houses, Births, Deaths, and Marriages for
the Year 1879 and 10 years preceding.
GROSS NUMBERS.
Population
Estimated at the
middle of the Year
1879.
No. of Inhabited
Houses in
Parish or District.
Births.
Deaths.
Marriages.
1879
35562.4
5234
1388
908
236
1878
33203.1
1877
5153
1380
626
225
32343.5
1876
4946
1344
694
310
31986.6
1875
4830
1267
633
280
31624.3
1874
4705
1192
645
267
31264.7
1873
4502
1209
675
305
30905.1
1872
4464
1069
• ,
550
250
30545.5
1871
4222
1006
533
220
30096 0
1870
3934
903
527
209
29400.0
1869
3836
939
567
213
28500.0
3645
912
660
186
Avorago of 10 years)
1869—1878.
30986.9
4423.7
11221.1
599.1
234.8
This table, after making the necessary calculations and deductions, gives us a net
death record of 21.7 per thousand per annum, with a corresponding birth-rate of 41*5
per thousand, and a marriage-rate of 8.7 per thousand. The increased death-rate (2-9
pei t lousand more than that of last year) was largely due to the extremes of temperature
we passed through in July, August and December, which considerably ran up our