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DEATHS OF YOUNG CHILDREN.
The deaths of young children aged less than five
years numbered 996, and formed forty-one per
cent. of the deaths from all causes; this is equivalent
to a rate of 56.0 per thousand calculated upon the
estimated population of young children.
ELDERLY PERSONS DEATH RATE.
Of the 2,418 deaths at all ages, 473 were those of
persons aged over 65 years, a proportion of about
twenty per cent. This gives a death rate, calculated
upon the estimated population of elderly persons of
98.4.
WEEKLY MORTALITY.
The line of the chart of deaths from all causes
indicates the number of deaths week by week corrected
for institution deaths.
QUARTERLY AND ANNUAL DEATHS AND
MORTALITY RATES.
Tables G & H overleaf shew, in addition to actual
numbers of deaths, quarterly and annual rates of
mortality for the principal Zymotic diseases and for
Phthisis in Bethnal Green and in the whole of
London.
Particulars of general birth and death rates and of
infantile death rates are also given.