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Sub-district of Putney and Roehampton. 53
cent. of the total number. The mortality among children
was, therefore, very much in excess of what we had last
year, and is accounted for by the severe epidemics of
Measles and Whooping Cough.
Infantile
Mortality.
For every thousand births, 151 children died
under 12 months. This large infantile mortality
is chiefly due to the fact which I have mentioned
above, viz:—the prevalence of Measles and Whooping
Cough during the early months of the year, and to the
respiratory complications which resulted from them.
Social Position
The proportion of deaths classified according
to social position is as follows:—
Nobility and Gentry— per cent.
Professional Classes 9.12 ,, ,,
Middle and Trading Classes 27.77 ,, ,,
Industrial and Labouring 63.11 ,, „
The proportion of deaths among the industrial and
labouring classes is increasing. This is doubtless what we
may expect; as the population increases there is a progressively
larger population of the artizan and labouring classes.
As to the relative mortality in the various social grades in
proportion to population, we have no means of knowing
it.