Annual report on the statistics and sanitary condition relating to Strand District, London for the year 1896.

  • Strand (London, England). Board of Works.
Date:
[1897]
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Credit: Annual report on the statistics and sanitary condition relating to Strand District, London for the year 1896. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    129 THE STRAND DISTRICT, LONDON. Table iv. shewing the Number of Births (Male and Female) occurring in the Strand District,and each of its Sub-Districts, in the Tear ending December 31st, 1896. Male. Female Total. Rate per 1,000 of Population in 1896. Average Rate per 1,000 in the 5 years 1891-95. 1. St. Anne's Sub District 143 149 292 23.89 25.55 2. Strand Sub-District 144 142 286 22.85 22.00 287 291 578 23.36 23.812 Deaths. The total number of deaths, after correction,* which were registered as properly belonging to this District, during the year was 537, as compared with 551 recorded during the preceding year. Upon the basis of the estimated population already referred to, this is equivalent to an annual death-rate of 21.71 per thousand persons throughout the District, as compared with 23.81 per thousand, the average rate for the preceding five years. The death-rates in the four quarters were as follows:— 1st Quarter. 2nd Quarter. 3rd Quarter. 4th Quarter. London 19.2 17.4 18.4 17.7 Strand 22.8 21.7 18.4 21.7 * The correction above referred to consists in omitting all deaths which took place in hospitals and kindred institutions within this district of persons not properly belonging to it; and, on the other hand, of including every death of such of its inhabitants as has occurred in hospitals, infirmaries, lunatic asylums, &c. throughout the Metropolis generally, and also those of paupers belonging to the several parishes of which the district is constituted, which have happened in the workhouses of the Strand and Westminster Unions respectively.