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Infant Mortality.
6. The Infantile death rate, i.e., deaths under 1 year to 1000
births, was much higher than last year, being 141. In 1892 it
was 109, and 1891, 129. The deaths under one year in each of
the four quarters were 45, 53, 84, and 86 respectively. These
figures indicate the probable causes of the high infantile death
rate of the year, viz. : the prolonged hot weather of the summer
and the Influenza in December. The Influenza appears to have
been specially fatal to young children last year. The infantile
death rate in the 4th quarter was the highest I have recorded,
and slightly above the average for London.
7. The Infantile death rate was only 132 in West Plumstead,
but in East Plumstead it was 143. This is doubtless due to there
being a larger proportion of the educated and well-to-do classes
in West Plumstead.
Zymotic Death Rate.
8. The Zymotic death rate was 3.2. In the two preceding
years it was 1.34 and 2.3 respectively. All the principal Zymotic
diseases, from which this rate is calculated, with the exception
of Whooping Cough, shewed an excess of deaths over last year.
This rate exceeded the average of the London Sanitary areas.
Uncertified Deaths.
9. The number of deaths which were not certified either by
a medical practitioner or by a coroner was 30, being larger
than in either 1891 or 1892. The percentage of total deaths
was 3.0, as compared with 2.4 and 1.6 in the two preceding years.