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The total number of deaths of children under one year of
age was 269, the lowest number recorded during the last 10
years, with the exception of 1884 and 1885.
The per-centage of these deaths to the registered births
was 15.28 as in 1883, being the highest number recorded
since 1875, when it was 1575. The per-centage of deaths
of children under one year of age to the total deaths was
14.16, a lower number than any recorded, with the exception
of 1884 and 1885; thus the mortality of children under one
year of age was almost 153 to a thousand births; whereas
in London generally it was 159; and the average for the
28 largest English towns was 169, the highest being Preston
with 233, and Leicester with 211. The only towns having
a lower ratio than this Parish were Bristol with 149, Derby
with 150, and Sunderland with 131 deaths of children
under one year of age to a thousand births. No doubt the
prevalence of Diphtheria, Whooping-cough, and Diarrhœa,
had much to do with the comparatively high infantile
death-rate during the year.