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MORTALITY AT DIFFERENT AGES.
Infantile Mortality.
Of the 2,157 deaths registered, 545 or 25.3 per cent. were of
infants under one year of age, and the rate of infant mortality
measured by the proportion of deaths under one year to births
registered in Fulham, was 118 per 1,000 and 116 per 1,000
after distribution of the births in the various metropolitan
Lying-in Institutions. This is the lowest infantile death-rate
yet recorded, and is 31 per 1,000 below the average rate of
the preceding ten years.
The rate of the County of London was 113 per 1,000, and
of the metropolitan boroughs ten had higher and eighteen
lower rates than Fulham.
In England and Wales the infantile death-rate was 121, and
in the 76 large towns 128 per 1,000.
The decrease in the infantile death-rate was as in the
previous year largely due to the relatively low diarrhœal
mortality consequent upon the cool summer, but the following
table, which gives the average mortality of the quinquennia
from 1886, when Fulham was separated from Hammersmith,
affords some evidence of improving conditions.

Causes of Infantile Mortality.
Table X. gives the causes of infantile mortality at various
periods under one year, and the following gives the proportion
of deaths occurring at certain age periods:—