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Ages at Of the two thousand eight hundred and fifty-eight
deaths recorded, eight hundred and thirty-eight were
under one year of age, three hundred and one over one and under
five years of age, ninety-seven between five and fifteen years,
one hundred and four between fifteen and twenty-five, nine
hundred and forty-six between twenty-five and sixty-five, and
five hundred and seventy-two were sixty-five years of age and
upwards.
Infantile Mortality.
Of the eight hundred and thirty-eight deaths under one year
of age, two hundred and ninety-seven were due to premature
birth, low vitality, or congenital defects, one hundred and
seventeen to digestive diseases, one hundred and thirty-three to
respiratory diseases, one hundred and four to diarrhoea, fortytwo
to tubercular diseases, and one hundred and forty-five to
other causes. The mortality at this period of life was equal to
one hundred and sixty-one per one thousand of the births
registered during the year. The following gives the infantile
mortality rates of Battersea for the past ten years:—