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MORTALITY AT DIFFERENT AGES.
Infantile Mortality.
Of the 2,347 deaths registered 666 or '28"2 per cent, were of
infants under the age of one year, and the rate of infant mortality
measured by the proportion of deaths under one year, to births
registered, was equal to 146 per 1,000.
The corresponding rate of the County of London was 158 per
1,000, the rates in the various sanitary districts ranging from 100
in Hampstead, 107 in St. George, Hanover Square, and 108 in
Stoke Newington, to 209 in St. George, Southwark, 228 in
Limehouse, and 240 in Holborn.
Among the 32 large provincial towns the lowest proportions
were— 132 in Croydon, Huddersfield and Halifax, and 133 in
Bristol; the highest proportions were 206 in Wolverhampton,
207 in Salford, 220 in Blackburn, and 236 in Preston.
The rate for the year is the lowest yet recorded, and for the
first time the infantile mortality was lower in Fulham than in
the County of London.
The following table gives the infantile mortality in London,
Fulham and the adjoining parishes for the preceding 10 years:—

DEATHS OF ILLEGITIMATE CHILDREN.
64 of the children who died before attaining the age of one
year were illegitimate, the mortality among them being in the proportion
of 345 deaths to 1,000 births, or more than twice as heavy
as that of children born in wedlock.