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total population. The corrected decennial average
number of deaths was 72.4, and the mean mortality
for the previous nine years, 0.59. This disease
was, therefore, below the average. In London, the
mortality last year was 0.41; that for 1885-93, 0.71,
and that for England and Wales (1894), 0.34,
0.33 below the decennial mean rate.
Of the local deaths, 44 occurred among the inhabitants
of St. Mary's District, equal to a rate of
0.49 per 1,000 inhabitants, and 1 among those of
St. John, equal to a rate of 0.03. In the first and
second quarters of the year 2 deaths were registered,
in the third, 37, and in the fourth, 4. As regards
sex, 24 of the deceased were males, and 21 females,
whilst as regards age, 38 (viz., 17 girls and 21 boys)
died at ages under 1 year, 4 (2 of each sex) between
the 1st and 5th years of life, and 3 (males 1,
and females 2), at greater ages. The death-rate
from this cause among male infants amounted to
14.45, and that for females, 12.31 per 1,000 births
registered in the Parish.
The diseases specified in the preceding paragraphs
are known as the Seven Principal Zymotic
Diseases, and it is customary to take the death-rate
from them as one of the standards of salubrity of a
district. The total deaths of parishioners last year
from these causes amounted to 286 (see Table Y. in
the Appendix), equal to a rate of 2.35 per 1,000
of the estimated population. The corrected