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nial average number of deaths was 251.9, and the
mean rate for the ten years, 2.2, that for the past nine
years, 2.09. In London, the death-rate from these
diseases was 2.64, and the mean rate for the nine preceding
years, 2.75. The rate for 1894 in England
and Wales was 1.75, 0.46 below the decennial
mean rate.
Of the 286 deaths of parishioners, 214 occurred
at ages under 5 years, 76 of these being infants
under 1 year. The zymotic death-rate at ages
under 5, was 18.58 per 1,000 estimated living at
those ages, and the rate among infants, 26.81 per
1,000 births. In St. Mary's Sub-District, the deathrates
from these diseases, calculated on the estimated
numbers living in each age-group were, at ages 0-1,
33.10; at ages 1-5, 16.84; and at ages exceeding
5 years, 0.74. The corresponding rates for the SubDistrict
of St. John were 10.52, 8.44, and 0.42.
By the use of the "correction factor," the true
zymotic death-rate for the Parish is found to be
2.53, and that for London, 2.81.
Septic Diseases.—Puerperal Fever caused one
death only last year, when 2,834 births were registered.
From Erysipelas there were 6 deaths, equal
to 4.9 per cent, of the cases notified, and from
Pyaemia, 4. This latter disease is not included in
the schedule of diseases to be notified The deathrate
from these diseases was 0*08 per 1,000 of the
estimated population.