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Kensington. The deaths of infants in North Kensington
under one year to births registered, 517 in number, after dis—
tribution of the deaths at the parish infirmary, were equal to
202 per 1,000 births, the corresponding ratio in South
Kensington being 129 per 1,000, the deaths numbering 138
only. Of the 655 deaths, 62 occurred in the Brompton subdistrict,
being equal to 112 per 1,000 births, and 543 in the
Town sub-district, being equal to 212 per 1,000 births. In the
several sanitary districts the deaths and death-rate of infants
under one year, were as follows:—
North 214 deaths equal to 201 per 1,000 births.
North-East 101 deaths equal to 176 per 1,000 births.
North-West 165 deaths equal to 253 per 1,000 births.
Central 87 deaths equal to 151 per 1,000 births.
South-East 35 deaths equal to 101 per 1,000 births.
South-West 53 deaths equal to 103 per 000 births.
The deaths of children over one year and under five years
of age, were 384 in number; the deaths under five years there—
fore were 1,039 (as compared with 951, 1,111, and 912, in the
preceding three years successively), being equal to 286 per 1,000
births ; the relative proportion in London, as a whole, being
258. The deaths of illegitimate children under five years of
age—129, 104, and 126, in the preceding three years re—
spectively—were 87 in 1898, of which 81 were registered in
the Town sub-district, and 6 in Brompton. These deaths
were equal to about 47.8 per cent on the 182 births registered
as illegitimate. Of the 87 children, 21 only outlived the
first year.
Infantile Mortality IN London.—It has already
been stated that the deaths of children under one year of age,
in Kensington, to 1,000 births were 180, and that the pro—
portion in London, as a whole, was 167. The Kensington
rate was exceeded in 11 of the sanitary districts, viz.: West—