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130
Medical Officers of Health Annual Report.
corrected for institutions, was 28'8, while in J 896 this
percentage was 36.03.
The infantile mortality per 1,000 registered births
was 127.3, compared with 143 in 1896, 137.9 in 1895,
and 121 in 1894.
The true infantile mortality, after correcting for
institutions, was 156 per 1,000 registered births, compared
with 158 per 1,000 in the Metropolis, and 156 in
England and Wales.
48 of these deaths occurred from diseases of the
zymotic class, 40 being due to Diarrhoea. The number
of deaths from premature birth and congenital defects is
partly responsible for this high death-rate, while diseases
of the respiratory and of the digestive organs also show
an increase compared with former years.
Senile
Mortality.
The deaths registered at 70 years and upwards
were 199, 79 of males and 120 of
females, and formed 22 per cent, of the total mortality.
This is an increase of 44 over last year, and of 89 over
1895. As usual the number of deaths of females exceeds
that of males, and this year the difference is very marked.
Two deaths, both of females, occurred between 95 and 100.