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during the years of 1869, 1870 and 1871; as in 1869, measles,
scarlet fever, and whooping cough were epidemic; in 1870,
measles were slightly, scarlet fever and diarrhoea extensively
prevalent. This is unusual, for when one disease causes an
excessively large mortality, the number of deaths from other
diseases are generally not only proportionately, hut absolutely
less than usual. The mortality from whooping cough and fever
were decidedly below the average, which might have been
expected, as whooping cough was very prevalent in 1869.
Although this death rate is large, yet it is much below that for
all London, as there were only 37 per 10,000 inhabitants
against 55 in the Metropolis at large.

This table shows that no less than 585 deaths happened in
children who were under one year old, being 23.7 per cent. of
the whole number. This is a little below the rate for all
London, which was 23.9 per cent. On comparing, however,
the per centage of deaths under one year, to births registered,
we obtain a much more favorably result, as there were only 585
of these deaths out of 4029 births, or at the rate of 14.5 per
cent., to 16.3 per cent. for all London, and 18.3 for 17 large
towns. The rate of deaths under one year to births, varied in
1870 very considerably in large towns, the lowest having been
Sunderland, where it was only 15.0 per cent., and the highest
Liverpool, where it was 25.9 per cent., or more than one quarter