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A. SENILE MORTALITY.
Deaths of Finsbury persons over 65, to the number of 391, occurred
in the Borough as follows:—
Clerkenwell 232
St. Luke 148
St. Sepulchre 11
391
Of these, 123 were between 65 and 70 years of age; 194 between
70 and 80; 63 between 80 and 90; 10 between 90 and 100; and 1
between 100 and 110. The conditions from which these persons
were certified as having died will be found on page 143.
In the following table the deaths of infants under one year of
age, and of persons of 65 and upwards, are compared. The numbers
occurring in each quarter are given:—
Jan-March April-June July-Sept Oct-Dec Total
Infants under 1 year 97 71 115 117 400
Persons of 65 years and 141 68 88 94 391
upwards
B. INFANTILE MORTALITY.
The number of Finsbury children who died under the age of
one year in 1908 was 400. The numbers dying in the three
previous years were, in 1907, 368; in 1906, 474; and in 1905, 429.
Of the 400 deaths in 1908, only 272 actually occurred in the
Borough, the remaining 128 taking place in institutions outside.
Information regarding these was supplied by the RegistrarGeneral.
INFANTILE MORTALITY RATE—This rate is stated as the
number of deaths of children under one year of age per 1000 births
occurring in the same year. This year, as last year, three distinct
figures are given as the infantile mortality rate of the Borough.
Two of these rates are calculated by the Medical Officer; the third
is the rate given by the Registrar-General in his table of infantile
mortality in the Metropolitan Boroughs.