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Lunatic Asylums, 54:
erysipelas 1 cancer 1
tubercular diseases 5 respiratory diseases 2
other diseases 45.
Poor Law Institutions, 3.
syphilis 2 tubercular diseases 1
" Elsewhere," 8:
Of the 160 deceased persons, 26 were residents of South Paddington.
DEATHS OF ILLEGITIMATES.
The deaths of 49 illegitimate children were registered
during the year, 42 under one year of age, 6 at
ages between one and five years, and one at ages
exceeding five years. Of the 49 deaths, 44 were
registered in North Paddington and five in South.
The mortality among illegitimate children under one
year was at the rate of 352 per 1,000 illegitimate births,
as compared with a rate of 147 among legitimate
children.
In speaking of the causes of death among illegitimate
children, attention may be directed to the heavy
proportion of deaths from improper feeding. Thus
the deaths of illegitimates at ages under one year, due
to diarrhoea, gastro-enteritis, and " atrophy and debility
" numbered 15, or 35.6 per cent, of the deaths at
these ages, whilst among legitimate children, these
causes were responsible for 119 deaths out of 435, or
27.3 per cent. The appended statement shows the
numbers of deaths due to certain causes, and the
occupations of the mothers of the children.