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The number of deaths of children under 5 years
of age was 810, being 48.8 per cent, of the total
deaths, against 52.0 per cent. in the previous year.
At ages above 60 years 298 deaths were registered,
being 17.9 per cent. of the whole. These
figures by no means represent the deaths of aged
persons belonging to the parish, as 78 of these died
in Rotherhithe Infirmary, 25 in Parish Street
Workhouse, and 18 in various hospitals and
asylums.
The number of deaths in Bermondsey Workhouse
was 84.
CAUSES OF DEATH.
From the chief diseases of the zymotic class 239
deaths were registered in the parish, and 41 in
various public institutions outside its boundaries.
These numbers indicate an annual zymotic death
rate of 2.8 per thousand of the population on the
deaths which happened in Bermondsey, and a
further rate of 0.5 on the deaths in hospitals.
Measles caused 75 deaths, being 17 fewer than
in the previous year. Fifty-five of these deaths
occurred in the St. James's District. From whooping
cough there were 76 deaths, against 50 in 1889.
Scarlet fever caused 30 deaths, 18 of which took
place in hospitals and 12 in Bermondsey. The
deaths from diphtheria were 8 within the parish and
11 outside. In 1889, the number of deaths from