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The following numbers of Deaths were registered at having
occurred in St. James's during the year 1886:—
First Quarter
161
Second Quarter
125
Third Quarter
112
Fourth Quarter
95
Gross mortality for year 1886
493
Deduct deaths of Non-Parishioners:—
Dying in the Workhouse
39
Dying in the Throat Hospital
4
43
Net mortality for the year 1886
450
450 deaths in a population of 29,865 is a death-rate of
15.07 per thousand. The net mortality and death-rate of St.
James's have been continuously decreasing.
These facts for the last ton years are shown in the following table, but, until
we have a new census, it is difficult to know what changes
are taking place in the population of St. James's since the
census of 1881:—
Gross
Morlality.
Net
Mortality.
Death
Rates.
Year 1877
Deaths
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
15.10
„ 1886
„
493
450
15.07