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The mean birth-rate duping the past 14 years was 38.6 per 1000.
The diagram below illustrates the percentage variation from that mean.
Deaths.—The total deaths of West Ham during the year
numbered 4,395, including 3,857 registered in the Borough by the local
Registrars (from which 44 must be deducted as being deaths of nonresidents),
325 registered as occurring in the Workhouse, and 257
deaths of West Ham Inhabitants which took place in hospitals and
other institutions within the metropolis. This number of deaths is
261 less than that of last year, and 170 less than that of 1893, giving
a death-rate for the year of 18.9 per 1,000, which was the mean deathrate
of the 33 great towns for the same period. It was .3 per 1,000
above that of London (18.6), but was lower than the rates of the
following towns:—Liverpool (22.7), Manchester (22.6), Salford (22.6),
Birmingham (20.8), Preston (20.8), Bolton (20.7), Oldham (20.3),
Wolverhampton (20), Sunderland (19.8), Plymouth (19.6), Birkenhead
(19.2), Sheffield (19.3), Gateshead (19.1).