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AGE-GROUP DEATH-RATES.
Tables 19 and 20 continue the series of sex-agegroup
death-rates for the Parish and its two subdivisions,
with the addition of the rates for
1893, which have been calculated during the past
twelvemonth. It is intended to carry the series back to
1891, so as to have a complete set of tables for the
intercensal period 1891 to 1901.
Among males the mortality at ages 0-5 years in
1896 was the highest recorded during the four years
1893-96,both in Paddington and in the two sub-divisions.
The greater part of this increase appears to have fallen
on children at ages of one to five years, among whom
the death-rate was 31.92 for the whole Parish, 33.51
in St. Mary and 21.18 in St. John. In the last-named
area, last year's rate was exactly three times that of
1895 (8.06). The rates at ages 5-65 years were the
lowest recorded in the four years in Paddington (8.67),
and St. John (7.12), that in St. Mary (9.44), being,
however, practically equal to the rate for 1893 (9.45),
the second highest of the four years. At ages above
65 years, the rates for 1896 were below those for 1895,
but did not fall to the comparatively low rates which
prevailed in 1894. The rates at all ages, were for the
whole Parish, 18.58, for St. Mary 19.82, and for St.
John 11.46. Attention may be called to the singularly
low rate which prevailed in St. John among males aged
15-25, viz. 1.84 per 1,000 at these ages, less than half