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which ocurred at the South-Eastern Metropolitan Asylums Board's
Hospital, including non-parishioners, and at the Outlying Public
Institutions.
Table No. 3 shows the death rate in the two Parishes during
the last 10 years.
Table No. 4 shows the excess of births over deaths in the
two Parishes of Saint Paul and Saint Nicholas, Deptford, and
Table No. 5 gives a comparative analysis of the mortality in all
London and in Deptford (parishioners only) in the year 1895.
MORTALITY AT GROUPS OF AGES.
The 2,430 deaths last year included 1,049 children under
five years of age. The deaths of 144 children occurred between
the ages of 5 and 10; 202 of persons between 10 and 30 years;
725 were of persons aged between 30 and 70; and 310 were of
persons aged upwards of 70.
INFANTILE MORTALITY.
The deaths of young children always bear a high ratio to the
total deaths; out of a total of 2,430 deaths registered during the
year, there were no less than 583 infants under one year of age,
being at the rate of 158 for every 1,000 births registered, whilst,
in the Metropolis as a whole it averaged 165, and in the thirty-two
great provincial towns it was 193 to every 1,000 births.
ZYMOTIC DISEASES.
The average death rate from the seven principal Zymotic
diseases in the two Parishes, including the parishioners who died
in the South-Eastern Metropolitan Asylums Board's Hospital,
was 2·3 per 1,000, as against 2·6 per 1,000 in London generally.
The number of deaths from all Zymotic diseases registered as
occurring at the houses of the parishioners was 282, as against 330