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During the first two weeks of the year, influenza and diseases of the chest
caused a high death rate. In the second week in January it was 35 per 1,000.
In June, July, August and September, diarrhoea was the principal cause of
the high death-rate. Influenza and chest disease again, during the last two
months of the year, sent the death-rate up.
In Table III, the rates for London and Shoreditch, with its sub-districts,
have been worked out so that comparisons may be readily made.

In addition to these, there was one non-resident killed on the railway, and
two residents drowned in the Regent's Canal.
In public institutions outside the district, there died 384 residents in the
parish, of whom 225 were males and 159 females.
Eleven persons, not belonging to the district, died in the parish, elsewhere
than in public institutions.
Inquests were held on 273 bodies.
Of the total deaths, 809 were of infants under one year or 25.7 per cent.
of the whole deaths, as against 25.6 per cent. in 1892, and 26.36 per cent. in
1891. The mortality amongst infants under one year of age was 186 per 1,000
births. The infant mortality last year was 169. For London, the mortality
amongst infants was 164 per 1,000 births.
The chief causes of death at this age were: debility at birth and premature
birth, 150; diarrhœa and enteric fever, 151; disease of the respiratory organs, 144;
tubercular diseases, 57; convulsions and teething, 55; causes not specified or
ill-defined, 84. Suffocation in bed with their parents was the cause of
30 deaths.
Between the ages of 1 and 5 years, 591 deaths occurred, the chief causes
being diseases of the respiratory organs (bronchitis and inflammation of the
lungs), 140; measles, 96; diptheria, 96; and whooping cough, 44.