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minster, 182 ; Hammersmith, 183 ; Bethnal Green, 184; St.
George, Southwark, 188; Poplar, 191 ; St. George in the
East, 195; Clerkenwell and Shoreditch, 196; Limehouse,
208 : St. Saviour, Southwark, 211 ; and Holborn, 221. In
the remaining 31 districts the rate of infantile mortality was
below that of Kensington (in 22 of them it was also below that
of London as a whole), the lowest rates being, in Stoke Newington,
108; St. George, Hanover Square, 120; Hampstead,
125 ; City of London, 128; Marylebone and St. Olave,
Southwark, 132; St. Giles, 137; Whitechapel, 144; St.
Luke, 150; Hackney, 152; Lambeth, 154; Mile End Old
Town, 155; St. Martin-in-the-Fields, 156; Bermondsey,
157, and Islington, 159.
SENILE MORTALITY.
At sixty years of age and upwards there were 862 deaths,
as compared with 784, 778, and 735, in the preceding three
years successively. These deaths were equal to 308 per 1,000
on total deaths, the equivalent proportion in London, as a
whole, being 240 per 1,000.
DISTRICT RATES OF MORTALITY.
The table at page 18 shows the death-rate in the
metropolis, the parish, the sub-districts, the parliamentary
divisions, and the sanitary districts, not only for the
year, as a whole, but also for each of the thirteen fourweekly
periods covered by my monthly reports. It will
be observed that, as usual, the death-rate in the Town subdistrict
was far higher than that in the Brompton subdistrict,
and the same observation applies to the parliamentary
division of North Kensington as compared with the southern
division of the borough. In three of the sanitary districts the
death-rate exceeded that of the parish as a whole (16.3 per
1,000) viz. the central (16.4), the north (20.5), and the north—
west (31.0). The last named district, as now delimited, and