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The accompanying table exhibits the number of deaths which
have taken place in each of the last 10 years, the births in each
year being placed opposite:—
deaths.
births.
1874
1,417
2,565
1875
1,539
2,505
1876
1,342
2,559
1877
1,385
2,522
1878
1,303
2,590
1879
1,456
2,667
1880
1,313
2,430
1881
1,254
2,414
1882
1,261
2,420
1883
1,172
2,402
The births were thus 18 loss than in the preceding year, and
105 less than the average.
According to the Registrar-General's sub-districts in which
the births and deaths occurred, they stand thus:—
deaths.
births.
excess.
St. James
316
634
318
Amwell
326
630
304
Pentonville
244
520
276
Goswell
286
618
332
In each year, a number of the deaths of the parishioners takes
place in general and special Hospitals. There has hitherto been
no means of accurately ascertaining these, I have therefore been
obliged to estimate the proportion of them from the known
number occurring in all the institutions in the metropolis, in
relation to the inhabitants. An annual estimate of these has
always been given for the last 27 years. The estimated number
for 1883 amounts to 104. As the deaths occurring in the Workhouse
and Infirmary are not registered in the parish, an estimate
of them must also be made, from the known number occurring
in all the institutions of the Holborn Union, in relation to
the number of paupers belonging to Clerkenwell.