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106 between the ages of 5 and 10; 178 between the ages of 10
and 30 ; 693 of persons between 30 and 70; and 306 were of
persons aged upwards of 70.
INFANTILE MORTALITY.
Infantile mortality, measured by the proportion of deaths
under one year of age to births registered was equal to 173 per
1,000, whilst in the Metropolis as a whole, it averaged 159 per
1,000, and in the thirty-three provincial towns it was 189 per
1,000.
Out of a total of 2,302 deaths registered in the two parishes
during the year, there were no less than 638 infants under one
year of age.
ZYMOTIC DISEASES.
The average Death Rate from the principal Zymotic diseases
in the two parishes was 2.07, as against 2.58 per 1,000 in London
generally, and 3.06 (or the thirty-two provincial towns.
The number of deaths from all Zymotic diseases registered
as occurring at the houses of the parishioners was 245, as against
379, 282 and 330 for the three previous years. Whilst in the
Metropolitan Asylum Board's South-Eastern Hospital, 237 were
registered, of these only 24 were parishioners of Deptford.
The number of infectious diseases notified under the Public
Health (London) Act, 1891, was 1,416, as compared with 1,478
for the previous year.
Of the Zymotic diseases Diphtheria and Enteric Fever showed
an excess over the previous year, whilst Small Pox, Scarlet Fever,
Continued Fever, and Puerperal Fever showed a decrease in
numbers.
A full detailed account of the deaths from all the Zymotic
diseases which occurred in the two parishes, as well as in the