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Vital Statistics.
This number represents a death rate of 11.0 per 1,000 of the
population. The death rate for the year for England and Wales
was 12.9, and for London 13.4.
The death rate for 1922 is contrasted with that for the
previous ten years, and with the death rates during the corresponding
period for England and Wales, and for London, in the following
table

The death rate for the District has been consistently lower
than that for London, or England and Wales. The death rate
was higher during the years of the war, reaching its highest point
in 1918, in which year the death rate even exceeded the birth rate
for that year. Since 1918 the death rate has fallen. The death
rate of 11.0 for 1922 (calculated on a population of 34,130 as
estimated by the Registrar-General from the 1921 census), appears
high in comparison with the death rate for 1920 and for previous
years, but the census of 1921 has shown that the Registrar-General's
figures for the population for the years prior to the census had
been over-estimated. As a matter of fact the deaths numbered
384 in 1920, 388 in 1921, and 377 in 1922, being approximately
equal for the three years, and allowing for a natural increase in
the population, the death rate for 1922 would be slightly lower
than that for 1920.