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70
This number is corrected in the above table by including
the deaths of parishioners in Hospitals, Asylums, &c., in
out-lying parts of the Metropolis, and excluding the deaths
of non-parishioners at the French Hospital, St. Giles Workhouse,
and the British Lying-in Hospital, Public Institutions
situated inside the District.
The death-rate of St. Giles District for the year was 23.2
per 1,000, or one death to 42.9 inhabitants.
This death-rate is only 0.1 above the average.
The death-rate for St. George, Bloomsbury, is 2.4 lower
than the previous year.
In Registration London there were 91,536 deaths, equal
to an annual death-rate of 21.3 per 1,000.
In England and Wales 569,923 deaths were registered,
and the death-rate was 19.2 per 1,000, corresponding with
the mean rate in the ten yeas 1883-92.
Infantile Mortality.
There were 263 deaths of children under 5 years of age ;
this mortality was in the proportion of 230 deaths to 1,000
births registered, and equivalent to 284 per 1,000 of total
deaths.
155 infants died under 1 year, and 108 children between
1 and 5, which means that 263 children died before they
reached 5 years of age. This number was 35 less than in
1892, and 72 lower than the average.
The diseases which caused the greatest mortality were
whooping-cough 17, diphtheria 18, diarrhoea 18, various
forms of tuberculosis 29, bronchitis and pneumonia 53,
suffocation in bed with parents 9, and atrophy 36.