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It will be seen that the following was the mortality in
the several institutions, viz :—
General and Special Hospitals 98
Wandsworth & Clapham Union Infirmary 56
Metropolitan Asylums Board Hospitals for
Small-pox and Fever 18
County and other Lunatic Asylums 7
Total 179
Ages at Under one year 385 infants died, being 35.9
Death. of the total mortality. Between one and five
years 219 deaths were recorded, equal to 20.4 percent.
Together 604 deaths occurred under five years of age,
being 56.1 percent, of the 1,071 deaths registered.
This was distinctly an improvement upon the infantile
mortality of the preceding years when it was 65.4 per
cent, of the total deaths.
Twenty-two persons were stated to have died from
old age, the number at 80 years and over being also 22.
Zymotic Table IV. illustrates the incidence of the in-
Diseases. fectious diseases for the last ten years. It must
not be forgotten that the population of the sub-district
has doubled during that period.