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The following numbers of Deaths were registered as having
occurred in St. James's during the year 1887:—
First Quarter
119
Second Quarter
115
Third Quarter
108
Fourth Quarter
121
Gross mortality for year 1887
463
Deduct deaths of Non-Parishioners:—
Dying in the Workhouse 32
Dying in the Throat Hospital 5
37
Net mortality for the year 1887
426
426 deaths in a population of 29,865 is a death-rate of
14.26 per thousand. The net mortality and death-rate of St.
James's have been continuously decreasing.
These facts, for
the last ten 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
Mortality.
Net
Mortality
Death
Rates.
Year 1878
Deaths
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
„ 1887
,,
463
426
14.26