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The number of deaths in the parish during the
first quarter of the year was 392 ; in the second
quarter, 307; in the third, 401 ; and in the last
quarter, 429.
Compared with the previous year there was an
increase in each quarter.
The number of deaths of children under one
year of age, inclusive of deaths in hospitals, was
574.
The proportion of these deaths to 1,000 registered
births was 187. The like infantile deathrate
in London was 167. This is a much higher
rate than the mean of ten previous years.
This rate is very much influenced by the greater
or less prevalence of summer diarrhœa, which is
excessively fatal to infants. The occurrence of
diarrhœa, in an epidemic form, seems to depend in
a great measure on the temperature of the air at
the end of summer and the beginning of autumn,
and especially on the temperature being much in
excess of the average for several days in succession.
CAUSES OF DEATH.
The chief diseases of the zymotic class caused
296 deaths against 258 in the previous year: 371