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The Registrar General gives the infant mortality rates in the
neighbouring districts as follows:—
South-Marylebone 176 per 1,000 infants born.
Hampstead 178 „ „ ,, ,,
St. Pancras 223 „ „ ,, ,,
Stoke Newington 156 „ „ ,, ,,
Hackney 231 „ „ ,, ,,
As the infantile mortality rate is considered one of the tests of the
sanitary condition of a district, it is satisfactory to note that in an
exceptionally severe summer for children it was as good as it has been.
In the several sub-districts the infant mortality rates were as follows:
Upper Holloway 186 per 1,000 infants born.
South west Islington 192„ „
South-east ,, 161 ,, ,,
Highbury 118 ,, ,,
The Parish 172 ,, ,,
ZYMOTIC DISEASES.
There were 257 deaths registered during the third quarter from the
Zymotic Diseases. These were equal to an annual death-rate of 3.05 per
1,000 inhabitants. This was the highest death-rate registered in any
similar period since the second quarter of 1894, at which time 277 deaths
were recorded, and when the death-rate was 3.32 per 1,000.
The chief item in the death-rate, now stated, was diarrhoea, which
caused 141 deaths, whereas in the second quarter of 1894 it was
118 deaths from Measles.
Singularly enough Measles was also unusually fatal in the quarter
now reported on, having caused 50 deaths.
Small Pox was the registered cause of one death, which occurred
in Upper Holloway. No death had been recorded from the disease
since the corresponding quarter of 1894, when one death was also
registered. Happily the district continues to keep clear from this terrible
malady, from which only 6 deaths have occurred during the last three
years.