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drowned in the Thames whose residence being
unknown were registered as deaths occurring
in the City. Many newly born infants found
concealed in railway carriages, cloak rooms,
&c., in the 28 railway stations, dust bins, and
out of the way places within the district.
The death rate for the City of London in
1894, upon these data, was 17.2 per 1,000 per
annum of the population, that for the whole
of the Metropolis during the same period
being 17.4.
The number of deaths from the principal
zymotic diseases works out low as a whole,
viz., 0.72 per 1,000.
The deaths of children under 1 year of
age to 1,000 births comes out 157 against 143
for the whole of London. The highest being
210 in St. Martin-in-the-Fields, and the lowest,
86 in Stoke Newington (with a population
very near the City, viz., 34,172).
[In one case the Registrar's Certificate
recorded the death of a lad at. 16 as "Pus in
the brain and scull caused by a billiard ball