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Arrangements have been made by the London County Council
with certain Nursing Associations in London for the nursing of cases
which require special care, on account of the severity of the symptoms
or on account of the home conditions making this assistance
desirable; and the services of nurses from one or two Institutions have
also been utilised. Of those Institutions, the North London Associa
tion for Nursing the Sick Poor, 413, Holloway Road, N., is the most
available for Stoke Newington cases. The Metropolitan Asylums
Board has undertaken to supply an ambulance for the removal of cases
without charge, but not to provide a nurse.
SENILE MORTALITY.—Of the 634 deaths, 211 were of persons
over 65 years of age. The proportion of deaths occurring among
those of over 65 years of age to the total deaths is, therefore, 33.3 per
cent. There were 150 deaths of persons over 70 years of age, and 57
of persons over 80, 8 of whom reached go years of age—the oldest
being 97.
The actual number of deaths certified as due to old age amounted
to 60, or 9.5 per cent, of the total deaths. This is a remarkably high
proportion, which indicates that there is a relatively large number of
old persons in the Borough, and that the conditions, atmospheric
and otherwise, which obtained during last year, were somewhat unfavourable
to them.

The respective ages of those over 90 were 90, 91, 91, 91, 93, 93,
94, 97.
The Causes of Death.—These are fully set forth in Table I,
in which it will be noted that the deaths are also apportioned to