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which occurred at the outlying public institutions and the
Metropolitan Asylums Board's South-Eastern Hospital, including
non-parishioners.
Table No. 3 shows the Death Rate in the two parishes during
the last 11 years.
Table No. 4 shows the excess of births over deaths in the two
Parishes of Saint Paul and Saint Nicholas, Deptford.
MORTALITY AT GROUPS OF AGES.
The 2,486 deaths last year included 1,226 children under
five years of age. The deaths of 135 children occurred between
the ages of 5 and 10 ; 212 of persons between 10 and 30 years;
665 were of persons aged between 30 and 70; and 249 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 2,486 deaths registered during the
year, there were no less than 646 infants under one year of age,
being at the rate of 168 for every 1,000 births registered, whilst in
the Metropolis as a whole it averaged 161, and in the thirty-three
great provincial towns it was 167 to every 1,000 births.
ZYMOTIC DISEASES.
The average Death Rate from the principal Zymotic diseases
in the two Parishes, including the parishioners who died in the
Metropolitan Asylums Board's South-Eastern Hospital was 3.4, as
against 3.14 per 1,000 in London generally.
The number of deaths from all Zymotic diseases registered
as occurring at the houses of the parishioners was 379, as against