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large number of young persons, engaged in shops and
warehouses, leave the City when they marry, and
seek a residence elsewhere.
Of the 1,752 births recorded in the year, 839 were
females, and 913 males. These numbers are in the
proportion of 108.8 males to 100 females. During the
last twenty-five years the proportion has been 103.4
males to 100 females, and this is nearly the average
for the rest of London, and for all England.
DEATHS.
The death-rate, like the birth-rate, has been highest
in the Eastern division of the City, and lowest in the
Central; for in the former it reached to 21.3 per 1,000
of the population, and in the latter to only 19.9. In
the Western district it was intermediate, namely
20.83 per 1,000, and in the whole City it averaged
20.6. This is much below the annual death-rate
(25.1) of the preceding ten years, and it is also below
the average death-rate (24.6) for the rest of the
Metropolis. In the towns and town-districts of
England the average death-rate is 24.9 per 1,000, and
in all England it is 22.6. Measured, therefore, by
these standards, it would seem that the mortality in
the City during the last year has been greatly below
the average, and this may in some measure be due to
the active sanitary operations of preceding years.
It is not wise, however, to speak with confidence on