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registered as having reached the very advanced age of 104
years! The total number of persons of advanced life dying
between 60 and 80 was 47, and at 80 and upwards, 10 ;
of these 57 persons 3 are registered as approaching 90
(83, 85, 89), and besides the one at 104, there is recorded
the death of another female at 94.
The total number of deceased persons under 20 years
of age was 93, or 2 in excess of the number registered in
the previous year. Of these as many as 44 died under
one year, 36 between 1 and 5 years, and 4 between 5 and
10 years of age. The total between birth and 10 years
of age, was therefore 84, or 41.5 per cent. of all deaths
registered within the year. This excessive death-rate
amongst children is greatly to be deplored. The remedy
would appear to be chiefly in improved education of the
poorer classes in all that relates to sanitation and domestic
management, and to that end the efforts of philanthropists
should be steadily directed.
Social Position.—The relative numbers of those dying
amongst the working classes, inclusive of the parochial
poor, and of those dying amongst the three classes above
them in 1868, was 64 of the former to 96 of the latter.
In the past year the deaths were relatively the same,
viz.:—101 of the former to exactly the same number of
the latter. It is a fair inference to be drawn from this
equality of numbers that both classes are being benefited
by the sanitation carried out by the authorities in this
Sub-district.
Sickness and Mortality amongst the Union Poor.—The
column of Table V., Appendix, which relates to the three
Parishes comprising the Streatham Sub-district, records
118 cases of disease, accidents, &c., treated amongst the
out-door parochial poor, and 7 resulting deaths, giving of
deaths to cases treated a per centage of 5.9. The cases
treated during the past year by the Union Medical Officers
were, it appears by the table referred to, 128 less than in
1868, shewing a considerable diminution of the pauper
element of the population of this improving locality.