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Deaths.
Of the 1,762 deaths in the City during the year,
there were 703 in the eastern division, 428 in the
western, and 631 in the central. These are at the
annual rate of 25.2 per 1,000 of the first district,
22.7 of the second, and 21.1 of the third, the average
for the entire City being 23 per 1,000 of the population.
In the course of the last 10 years it has
been 26.2, and in the whole of the Metropolis it
averages 24.1. In the 14 chief towns of this
kingdom it is 26.1, and in all England and Wales
it is 22.5. In Austria it is 32.2; in Italy, 30.5; in
Spain, 29.5; and in France, 23.7: so that the deathrate
in the City (23 per 1,000 of the population)
during the last year has not been excessive. Allowance,
however, must be made for the comparatively
low birth-rate of the City, as well as for
the migration of the population, and the peculiar
circumstances connected with the ages of the people,
all of which affect to a considerable extent the local
death-rate. I have already alluded to the influence
of the birth-rate, and have shown that it cannot be
disregarded in judging of the mortality of a place.
Very recently the effect of migrations in disturbing
the local rates of mortality has been very ably discussed
by Mr. Thomas A. Welton in a paper which
he read before the Institute of Actuaries, and in
which he illustrates the effects of the migration of