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Whooping-Cough, it is found, resulted in death in rather
more than double the number of instances recorded in the
last report. In the aggregate, there were less deaths due
to Zymotic diseases than in the previous year by 345, the
relative numbers in the two years being 858 and 513,
constituting 28.3 per cent of the deaths from all causes
in 1871, and 18.4 per cent only in the past year.
Other Diseases.— By comparing the Tables of this and
the preceding report, it will be seen that under almost all
the diseases named in the section relating to non-Zymotic
maladies there is now recorded a less number of deaths
than in 1871, by the large number of 101 in favour of the
past year, the only increase being observable under the
two headings of diseases of "Uncertain Seat," and of
"Violence." In the first of these there has been an
increase from 69 to 118, and in the last from 56 to 87.
Ages at Death.—Perhaps the most gratifying portion of
the present Table is that section of it which marks the
ages at death between birth and 10 years. In the last
report the total deaths of the three periods, "under 1
year,'' "from 1 to 5 years," and "from 5 to 10 years,"
was 1,433. In the present table the total number recorded
at the same ages is 1,218, which is 215 less than in 1871.
(For details see Local Summaries.)
From old age or natural decay, there were registered, in
1871, as many as 125 deaths against 105 in the present
table. Inclusive of those who died from pure old age,
there succumbed, during the year, 448 persons between
60 and 80 years and upwards, the oldest (a lady who
resided at Roehampton) having reached the great age of
97. There are in the other Sub-districts records of deaths
at 95 (Wandsworth), 94 (Streatham), 92 (Battersea), and
91 (Clapham).
Social Position of the Deceased Persons.—The statistics
that have been tabulated bearing upon the above point are