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and would add 1.3 to the general death-rate per 1,000 inhabitants.
DEATHS.
The deaths registered in Bermondsey during the year
numbered 1,268, being 143 fewer than in the previous
year. The deaths of parishioners in hospitals, asylums,
and other public institutions were 503, an increase of 31.
The total deaths were therefore 1,771, corresponding to an
annual rate of mortality of 20.7 per 1,000 inhabitants. The
death-rate in the Metropolis, as a whole, was 18.7. The
male death-rate was 20.4, and the female death-rate 17.1.
The number of deaths in the Parish during the first quarter
of the year was 356; in the second quarter 262; in the third
quarter 310; and in the last quarter 340. The number of
deaths of children under one year of age, inclusive of deaths
in hospitals, was 485. The proportion of these deaths to
1,000 registered births was 157. The like infantile deathrate
in London was 167. This was a rather high rate, as
the mean of 10 previous years was 151. This rate is very
much affected by the/ prevalence of summer diarrhœa, which
is excessively fatal to young children. The amount of
diarrhœa depends, in a great measure, on the temperature
of the air at the end of summer and the beginning of
autumn.
CAUSES OF DEATH.
The chief diseases of the zymotic class caused 258 deaths,
against 371 in the previous year, 328 in 1896, and 270 in