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of age was only 219, the lowest number of such deaths yet
recorded for any year, the nearest to it being 1884 (53
weeks) with 259 such deaths. The percentage of these
deaths to the registered births was also decidedly lower than
in any previous year, as also was their percentage to the
total deaths; thus the mortality of children under one year
of age was almost exactly 124 to a thousand births, while
in London it was 148 (as against 155 in the year 1884),
and the average for the 28 largest English towns was 155
(as against 168 in 1884), the highest being Preston 218,
Leicester 193, and Cardiff 189. None of these 28 towns
had a smaller percentage of deaths of children under one
year of age to total deaths than this Parish, the nearest to
it being Hull with 128; whereas in 1884 there was one town,
and in 1883 twelve towns, which had lower numbers than
this Parish. We may fairly regard this continually lessening
infant mortality as a sign of general sanitary progress.

Table III. shows that the number of deaths of persons