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the year under report, for instance, during the preceding year the
mortality amongst infants under five years of age from zymotic
diseases numbered 400, whereas during the year 1899 the mortality
in the same class numbered only 281. Again in the mortality
at these ages from all diseases, a great saving of life has taken
place, the total for 1898 being 1,222 and that for the year 1899
only 1,139. The table also gives particulars of deaths at other
ages.
Deaths in Public Institutions.
During the year, three hundred and forty-eight Battersea
parishioners died in public institutions and other places outside
the parish but within the Metropolis, in addition to three hundred
and six dying in the Wandsworth and Clapham Union Infirmary
and twelve in the Bolingbroke Hospital, details of which are
given in Tables XIV. and XVI. respectively ; making a total of
six hundred and sixty-six deaths of parishioners in public
institutions. During the preceding year, six hundred and fortyone
similarly occurred. The following table gives details of
such of the deaths as occurred outside the parish, indicating
age, sex, and cause of death and the particular class of institution
where the deaths occurred, those in general and special hospitals
being represented by the largest number. In County and other
Lunatic Asylums, fifty-one deaths occurred, corresponding
exactly with the number dying in similar institutions in the
preceding year.