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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's and Saint Nicholas, Deptford.
MORTALITY AT GROUPS OF AGES.
The 2,354 deaths recorded during the year included 1,097
children under five years of age. The deaths of 671 children
occurred under one year of age, and 426 deaths were registered
between 1 and 5 years, 90 between the ages of 5 and 10;
177 between the ages of 10 and 30; 746 of persons between 30
and 70, and 244 were of persons aged upwards of 70.
INFANTILE MORTALITY.
Infantile mortality, measured by the proportion of deaths
under one year of age to births registered was equal to 180 per
1,000; whilst in the Metropolis as a whole, it was 178, and in the
thirty-two great provincial towns it was 185 per 1,000.
Out of a total of 2,354 deaths registered in the two parishes
during the year, there were no less than 671 infants under one
year of age.
ZYMOTIC DISEASES.
The average Death Rate from the principal Zymotic diseases
in the two parishes was 2.51, as against 2.78 for London generally,
and 2.87 for the thirty-two provincial towns.
The number of deaths from the principal Zymotic diseases
registered as occurring at the houses of the parishioners was 297.
Whilst in the South-Eastern Metropolitan Asylum Board's