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112
Medical Officers of Health Annual Report.
Diseases of the urinary organs caused 24 deaths, 11 of males and
13 of females; this is 4 less than in 1893, and 4*4 less than corrected
average.
Premature births, low vitality, and congenital defects were the
cause of 58 deaths, 14 less than last year, and 7-5 below the
corrected decennial average. All these deaths were of children
under 1 year.
The deaths registered from old age were 38 in number, 15 of
males and 23 of females, and were 3 below the corrected average.
28 of these deaths occurred in persons of 75 years and upwards.
12 deaths of persons belonging to the district occurred in the
Union Infirmary.
From violence, 23 deaths, 18 of males and 5 of females wero
registered. This is 3"5 below the decennial average.
infantile Mortality. The total number of deaths of infants, under 1 year
was 197, 38 less than last year. The per centage of these to the
total mortality was 25'6, as compared with 28'6 last year.
The infantile death-rate, calculated from the number of registered
births, was 121 per 1,000, 25 below last year. This compares
favourably with the same rate for the whole of London, which was
143 per 1,000 births, while only 5 districts in London, the constitution
of whose population as regards social population is different
had a lower infantile mortality.
Senile Mortality. The total number of deaths above 70 years of age
was, including deaths in external institutions, 97, 32 of males and
65 of females.