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The Deaths registered in London during the year
1885 were exactly 80,000, and corresponded to an
annual rate of 19.7 per 1,000 inhabitants. This was
the lowest rate on record in London.
Appended is the annual death-rate per 1,000 in
the parish of St. Martin-in-the-Fields during the
last ten years:—
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
1885 19.3
Ages at Death.
Of the above 426 total deaths occurring within
the parish, 64 were under 1 year, 49 from 1 to 5
years, 36 from 5 to 20 years, 91 from 20 to 40 years,
106 from 40 to 60 years, 71 from 60 to 80 years, and
9 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.