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the number of deaths registered in this Parish last year
was 185 below the average number registered during the
last 10 years. Adding 331 deaths of parishioners of this
Parish which took place in the general hospitals and other
public institutions in other parishes of London, in London
County Lunatic Asylums and Metropolitan Imbecile
Asylums, and deducting 129 deaths of non-parishioners
which occurred 87 at the West London Hospital, 24 at
Nazareth House, 6 at the Convent of the Good Shepherd,
1 at St. Joseph's Schools, 9 at H.M. Prison, Wormwood
Scrubs, and 2 which otherwise occurred in the Parish,
the corrected number of deaths of parishioners which
were registered last year was 1,758. On the before mentioned
estimated population, the corrected number of
deaths of parishioners registered last year was equal to an
annual rate of 16.8 deaths per 1,000 persons living; the
death rate in London on the estimated population of
London up to the middle of the year was equal to an
annual rate of 18.6 per 1,000 persons living.
DEATHS OF INFANTS.
The corrected number of deaths of parishioners under
one year of age registered during last year was 517, against
469 in the previous year. The number of deaths of infants
under one year of age registered last year was equal
to 29.3 per cent. of the total deaths of parishioners
registered, and was equal to 17.2 per cent. of the total
registered births. The number of deaths of infants under
one year of age in London last year was equal to 26.2
per cent. of the total deaths registered, and to 16.1 per
cent. of the total registered births. The mortality rate
of infants under one year of age was therefore, as compared
with the total deaths of parishioners registered, 3.1
per cent. greater in this Parish than in London, and, as
compared with the total births registered, 1.1 per cent.
more in this Parish than in London.
DEATHS OF AGED PERSONS.
The corrected number of deaths of parishioners at 60
years of age and upwards that were registered during last
year was 426, against 477 in the previous year. The