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Mortality at Different Ages.—The deaths of children under
one year were 167, or equal to 20 per cent. of total deaths,
and 11 per cent. of total births. These figures show a rise
on those for the preceding year, the rates for 1893 being
13.9 and 10 per cent. The rise was caused by an increase of
mortality under the heads of premature birth, debility,
whooping cough, and bronchitis.
At 65 years and upwards there were 189 deaths, and of
these, 62 died between 75 and 85, and 17 between 85 and 95,
the oldest on the list being a builder, aged 91.

Of these, 573 were non-parishioners; 18 parishioners died
in the North Western Hospital; 7 in the Hampstead
Hospital; 2 in the North London Hospital for Consumption ;
1 in St. Peter's Home; 1 in Friedenheim, and 65 in the
Workhouse.
Of the 56 parishioners who died in outlying Institutions,
43 succumbed in hospitals, 8 in asylums, and the remainder
in infirmaries and other places.
Special Causes of Death.—The deaths of parishioners from
the seven principal zymotic diseases, after correction for
those of our parishioners who died in hospitals outside our