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Mortality at Different Ages.
INFANTILE MORTALITY.
Of the 2,030 deaths registered, 662 or 32.6 per cent, were those of
children under one year of age, and the rate of infant mortality measured
by the proportion of deaths under one year to births registered was 161
deaths to 1,000 births as compared with 175, 177, 149, and 187, in the
previous 4 years. The corresponding rate for the County of London was
159 deaths to 1,000 births, the rates in the various sanitary districts ranging
from 116 in Plumstead, 121 in Stoke Newington, and 127 in Hampstead,
to 190 in Bermondsey, 193 in Limehouse, 195 in St. Saviour's, and 197
in St. George's-in-the-East.
In the large provincial towns, the rate average 189 per 1,000,
among which it ranged from 141 in Huddersfield, 135 in Croydon, 140 in
Swansea, 142 in Halifax, and 144 in Brighton, to 206 in Nottingham and
in Blackburn, 214 in Birmingham, 217 in Woverhampton, 219 in Salford,
220 in Burnley, and 262 in Preston.
Between the ages of 1 and 5 years 265 deaths were registered, so that
the deaths of children under the age of 5 years numbered 927, or 46
per cent, of the total number of deaths. These deaths were equal to an
annual rate of 54.8 per 1,000 of the population estimated to be living at
that age, the corresponding rate for the Metropolis being 60.7.