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In column 1, foot of Table I. of the Appendix, will be found a
list of places where deaths of non-parishioners occurred in the
district. There were 22 such deaths in all, against 31 in 1926
and 47 in 1925.
352 persons belonging to this Borough died in outlying
institutions, against 352 in 1926, and 321 in 1925. The names of
the various places where the deaths occurred will be found in
columns 2 and 3 at foot of Table I. of Appendix.
INFANTILE MORTALITY.
The figure for this is 67 deaths under one year to every 1,000
births.
TABLE A.—INFANTILE MORTALITY.
Whole Borough
London
Year
No. of
Deaths
Rate per
1,000
Births
No. of
Deaths
Rate per
1,000
Births
1917
335
125
8,273
103
1918
139
7965
107
322
1919
99
85
262
7,039
83
7,039
1920
337
75
1921
306
95
80
-
1922
324
102
-
-
1923
220
76
-
-
78
1924
229
-
-
1925
210
79
60
-
-
1926
146
-
-
Average for years
1917-1926
269
-
-
94
1927
149
67
-
-
DEATHS FROM ZYMOTIC DISEASES.
There has been a decrease in the deaths from these diseases,
the figures being 45 against 94 in the previous year, and 164
the average for the last 10 years. This gives a zymotic death-rate
of ·37.
MEASLES.
There were 9 deaths due to this disease, which is 34 below
the average for the last 10 years, and 15 below the number for
1926.