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The deaths registered in London in the year 1884
amounted to 83,050, and corresponded to a rate of
20.3 per 1,000. This was the lowest death-rate on
record in London; the next lowest having been
that of the immediately preceding year 1883, when
the rate was 204 per 1,000.
Appended is the annual death-rate per 1,000 in
the parish of St. Martin-in-the-Fields during the
last ten years :—
1875
18.3
1876
17.2
1877
16.9
1878
17.5
1879
18-6
1880
16.8
1881
18.5
1882
17.6
*1883
19.0
1884
19.7
Ages at Death.
Of the 469 deaths, 78 occurred under 1 year, 64
from 1 to 5 years, 32 from 5 to 20 years, 94 from
20 to 40 years, 120 from 40 to GO years, 67 from 60
to 80 years, and 8 above 80 years.
*This is the first year returns have been supplied to me from the
Registrar-General's Office of deaths of parishioners occurring in
Public Institutions outside the Parish, which deaths have been added
to the death-rate.—J. J. S.