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Infantile Mortality.—During the last three-quarters of 1894
there were 43 deaths registered of infants under 1 year of age, as
against 584 births. The proportion which the deaths under 1 year
of age bear to each 1,000 births is therefore 73.6, as against 139.8
in London generally, 133 in England and Wales, and 152 in the
33 Great Towns. We have a lower rate of infantile mortality than
any other sanitary area within the Metropolis, and this speaks well
for the general healthiness of the district—of which the rate of
infantile mortality is held to furnish an excellent index.
The deaths under 1 year of age form 18.7 per cent, of the total
deaths at all ages, whereas in London generally they form, for the
same period, 25.2 per cent. of such deaths.
Senile Mortality.—-Of the 229 deaths registered during the
three-quarters of 1894, 60 were of persons over 60 years of age,
and 52 were of persons over 65 years of age. The proportion of
deaths occurring over 60 years of age to the total deaths is therefore
26.2 per cent., and of those deaths occurring over 65, 22.7 per
cent.
The Causes of Death.—These are set forth in Table A, in
which it will be noted the deaths are also apportioned to different
age periods. Table A 1 is supplementary to Table A, and sets
forth the causes of death in each of the two divisions of the parish
a little more fully. Table A 2 shows the deaths registered in the
parish distributed over each of the three quarters with which the
report deals.
It will be noted that diseases of the respiratory organs claim
most victims, and that when we include consumption among these
the deaths from these causes show a very great preponderance over
the deaths from any other class of diseases. Situated as the
district is upon a somewhat cold and exposed site, one would
expect to find the mortality from chest complaints higher; if
Table A 3 be referred to, it will be seen that we compare very
favourably with London generally in respect of this mortality.