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The following number of Deaths were registered as harin;'
occurred in St. James's during the year 1885:
First Quarter 151
Second Quarter 110
Third Quarter 125
Fourth Quarter 90
Gross mortality for year 1885 476
Deduct deaths of Non-Parishioners:—
Dying in the Workhouse 20
Dying in the Throat Hospital 6
— 26
450
Add one death among Zymotic cases removed
to extra-Parochial Hospitals 1
Net mortality for the year 18S5 451
451 deaths in a population of 29,865 is a death-rate of 15.1
per thousand. The net mortality and death-rates of St. James's
for each year have been decreasing.
These facts for the last ten years are shown in the following table:
Gross
Net
Death
Mortality. Mortality.
Rates
Year 1870 Deaths
021
573
17.10
„ 1877 „
554
517
15.40
„ 1878 „
693
647
19.00
„ 1879 „
608
568
17.00
,, 1880 „
623
589
17.60
„ 1881 „
569
545
18.22
„ 1882 „
538
505
17.00
„ 1883 „
527
501
16.80
„ 1884 „
486
476
15.94
„ 1885 „
476
451
1510
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