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containing a population of 16,450, includes the so-called
" Notting-dale " special area. The mortal statistics of the
district, as a whole, are unsatisfactory: the death-rate in 1898
(31.0 per 1,000) was rather more than double the rate in
the remainder of the parish (14.7 per 1,000); the zymotic
death-rate (4.2 per 1,000) was excessive, being nearly two-anda-half
times as high as that of the remainder of the parish
(1.78 per 1,000) ; the waste of infant life was also excessive,
the deaths under one year (165) being equivalent to
253 per 1,000 births registered, the infantile deaths in
the remainder of the parish being in the proportion
of 154 per 1,000 births. These figures show to what a large
extent the statistics of this district,which contains considerably
less than a tenth of the population, spoil those of the parish
generally. But if matters were bad in the district, as a
whole, they were still worse in the " Notting-dale" special
area, which contains a population of 4,000 souls; for its deathrate
was 455 per 1,000, as compared with 163 in the
parish, as a whole, and 26.5 in the north-west district less the
special area: the zymotic death-rate was 5.5 per 1,000 persons
living, or more than two-and-a-half times as great as that of
the parish, as a whole. The deaths at all ages were 65 more
than the births; the deaths of children under one year of age
being in the proportion of 419 per 1,000 (41.9 per cent.) on
the births registered. Unsatisfactory, however, as these
statistics may be,they show a decided improvement on those of
the preceding two years, as shown in the subjoined state—
ment submitted to your Vestry with the last monthly report
1898, but not otherwise published.