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These 625 deaths were equivalent to 21.4 per cent. on total
deaths, and to 17.0 per cent. on births registered: the
equivalent percentages for the whole Metropolis were 23.8
and 16.4, and for England and Wales 25.5 and 15.9.
The deaths of illegitimate children under five years of
age, 118, 119, and 119, in the preceding three years respectively,
were 100 in 1893 (males 56, and females 44), of
which 90 were registered in the Town sub-district, and were
equal to 55.9 per cent. on births registered as illegitimate. Of
these 100 children, 15 only outlived their first year; ten died
in the second and 5 in the third year of life. The causes of
death as registered, were atrophy, &c., 26 ; premature birth,
8 ; tubercular diseases 5 ; zymotic diseases 18 (viz., diarrhoea 13,
whooping-cough 2 ; scarlet fever 1; diphtheria 1; and measles
1); syphilis 6 ; lung diseases 16 ; convulsions 7 ; diseases of
the digestive organs 8 ; violence 2 (burns 1, suffocation 1) ;
meningitis 2 ; septicoemia and cellulitis one each.
Senile Mortality.—At sixty years of age and upwards
there were 859 deaths, against 826, 957, and 880, in the preceding
three years ; they were equivalent to 29.5 per cent. on
total deaths, the equivalent percentage in London as a
whole, being 23.8.