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The number of deaths of children under 1 year of
age in Bermondsey was 496, and in public institutions
24, making a total of 520. The infantile
mortality, or the proportion of deaths of children
under 1 year of age per thousand births registered
in the parish during the year, was 162. The like
rate in London was 166, the average of 10 years
being 153.
CAUSES OF DEATH.
The principal diseases of the zymotic class caused
227 deaths in the parish, and 43 in outlying institutions,
making a total of 270, against 279 in the
previous year.
Including the hospital cases, there were 114 deaths
from measles, 29 from diphtheria, 20 from whooping
cough, 80 from diarrhœa, and 11 from enteric fever.
One death was attributed to chicken-pox. Compared
with the previous year there was an increase of 35
deaths from measles and 36 from diarrhœa. There
was a decline of 37 deaths from diphtheria, 31 from
whooping cough, and 5 from enteric fever.
The zymotic death rate in Bermondsey was 3. 18.
The same death rate in London was 2.64. Our
proportion of children at that period of life in which