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DEATHS AND DEATH RATE.
The deaths of 2245 persons were registered in Fulham during the
year; but of these 447 were of persons not belonging to the district,
while the deaths of 226 parishioners occurred in institutions outside the
district. There were, therefore, 2024 deaths of parishioners of Fulham,
this number being equivalent to a death rate of 19.3. The death rate
for the whole of London for the same period was 20.9.
MORTALITY AT DIFFERENT AGES.
Infantile Mortality.
Of the 2024 deaths registered, 659 or 32 per cent. were those of
children under one year of age. The rate of infant mortality measured
by the proportion of deaths under one year to births registered was 177
per 1000 births, the rate for the whole of London being 164 per 1000;
the latter exceeding by 11 the average proportion for the preceding ten
years. The lowest rate among the London Sanitary Districts was that
of Hampstead, with 102 deaths per 1000 births; and the highest that
of the Strand, where the proportion was 219 per 1000.
The rates in the large towns ranged from 141 in Bristol and
Huddersfield; to 220 at Leicester; and 223, 241 and 269 at Barnsley,
Blackburn and Preston; and the average rate for the 32 large provincial
towns was 193.
Childhood.
Between the age of one and five years 264 deaths were registered,
so that the total number of deaths of children under five years of age
numbered 923, or 45.6 per cent. of the total number of deaths. These
deaths were equal to an annual rate of 62.5 per 1000 of the population
estimated to be living at this age.
Deaths of Illegitimate Children.
The deaths of 72 illegitimate children were registered, of whom
63 were under one year of age; thus the mortality of illegitimate children
under one year was in the proportion of 358 deaths per 1000 births, or
double the rate of children born in wedlock. Illegitimacy is well known
to render the life of infants extremely precarious, the investigations of
the commission appointed to examine into the mortality of illegitimate