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The death-rate for the year 1890, is 17.9 per 1,000, a rate a
trifle higher than the previous year, but I must remind you that the
death-rate over the whole of London in 1890, was higher than in
former years. The Registrar-General in his Annual Summary of
Births, Deaths, and Causes of Death for 1890, says:—
"The deaths registered in the year numbered 91,243, and corresponded
to an annual rate of 20.3 per 1,000 of the estimated
population. This rate was higher than the rate in any one of the
five next preceeding years, and was an interruption to the almost
unbroken fall in the London mortality that began in 1879."
Appended is the annual death-rate per 1,000 in the Parish of
St. Martin-in-the-Fields, during the last ten years:—
1881 18.5
1882 17.6
*1883 19.0
1884 19.7
1885 19.3
1886 18.2
1887 18.1
1888 17.3
1889 17.1
1890 17.9
Causes of Death.
Zymotic Diseases.—The principal Zymotic Diseases are Smallpox,
Measles, Scarlet Fever, Diphtheria, Whooping Cough, Typhoid
Fever, Typhus Fever, Cholera, and Diarrhoea.
The total number of deaths occurring in the Parish from the
above-named diseases was 22. This number includes those nonparishioners
who died in the Charing Cross Hospital. After deducting
those non-parishioners, and adding those parishioners who died in
Public Institutions outside the Parish, the mortality due to St.
Martin-in-the-Fields would be 23. (See Table 5.)
*This is the first year returns have been supplied to me from the RegistrarGeneral'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.