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did also the deaths under the heading "Premature Birth,
Low Vitality, Malformation, &c." Under "Diseases of the
Respiratory Organs" there was a slight decrease, as also
was the case under "Urinary Organs," "Old Age," and
" Diseases of Uncertain and Variable Seat."
Ages at Death.—The deaths of infants and young
children from birth to 10 years of age, amounted to no
fewer than 1,336, which it is, with great regret, found to
be above the 10 years' average by as many as 225.
Scarlatina, Measles, Whooping Cough, and Diarrhœa
were so fatal to children in some localities as to constitute
a very serious amount of mortality relatively to that from
all causes, and at all ages. At the other extreme of age,
i.e., from 60 to 90 and upwards, there died 30 more
persons than in the previous year, whilst of young and
middle-aged adults (from 20 to 60 years of age), there
succumbed 288 beyond the number last tabulated. The
oldest person who died in the District within the past year
had arrived at the advanced age of 98. The death of this
person was registered at the Union Infirmary in Battersea.
There were several others registered in different parts of
the District at 91 and 92, and very many between 80
and 90.
Social Position of the Deceased Persons.—Mortality
amongst the Union Poor.—It will be unnecessary to
dwell at any length upon those parts of the tables which
have reference to "social position," since the relative
numbers of deaths amongst the different classes of the
community are fully referred to in the several local
summaries ; it will suffice, therefore, to remark that there
succumbed 1,993 of the industrial and poorer classes
against 803 of the three classes above them collectively.
The disparity of numbers then is found to be rather
greater than in the previous year against the poorer
classes. The fresh cases of disease, &c., falling under the
treatment of the Union Medical Officers in the several