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deduct the number of deaths occurring within the district among persons not belonging
thereto.
The deaths of children under one year of age numbered 789, of which 412 were
of males and 377 females. Of these 264 were due to zymotic diseases, principally
diarrhoea, measles and whooping cough, 135 to disease of the respiratory organs,
principally pneumonia and bronchitis, 28 to enteritis, 90 to various forms of developmental
diseases, 99 to convulsions, and 100 to ill-defined causes and causes not
specified, including 72 attributed to marasmus. There were 40 deaths attributed to
violence, 35 of which were caused by suffocation in bed through accident or negligence.
The deaths of children under one year formed 29.6 per cent. of the total deaths
in the parish as compared with 29.5 per cent. in 1896; 30.3 per cent. in 1895; 28.1
per cent. in 1894; 25.7 per cent. in 1893; 25.6 in 1892, and 26.36 in 1891.
The mortality amongst infants under the age of one year was at the rate of 186.3
per 1000 births in the parish during the year as compared with a rate of 183.3 for
last year. The infant mortality for the whole of London during 1897 was 159 per
1000 births. In the following table the infant mortalities of London and Shoreditch,
for the ten years ending 1896, are set out so that comparison can readily be made :—

The average yearly mortality amongst infants in Shoreditch during the ten
years ending 1896 was 177.2 per 1,000 births, as compared with a Metropolitan
mortality of 154.3 during the same period.
Of children, aged from one to five years, 453 deaths were registered, as compared
with 502 last year. Zymotic diseases caused 271 deaths, 81 of which were due to
measles, 58 to diphtheria, 39 to whooping cough, 24 to scarlet fever, 30 to diarrhœa,
and 38 to various forms of tuberculosis. Pneumonia caused 79 deaths, and bronchitis