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Age at Death.—Infant Mortality. —The total mortality
in early life was below that of 1881, allowance
being made for an increased population, and there was
a diminution of 2 per cent. in the mortality of infants
under one year of age, without any such correction,
23.4 per cent. of all deaths were of infants in the first
year of life, 40.4 per cent. of children under five years of
age, and 45.4 per cent. of persons under twenty years
of age.
Senile Mortality.—The mortality at the other extreme
of life was large; twenty-nine deaths were registered
as being solely due to old age, but no less than 111
persons died at and upwards of 60, forming nearly a
third of the whole mortality; of these 43 were 70 and
upwards, 25 were over eighty, and 4 were aged respectively,
90, 92, 94 and 98.
Of the persons who died at and over 70. 40 were
males and 32 females.
Sickness and mortality amongst the out-door poor of
the parish.
Table V. in the Appendix gives the number of
persons who were under treatment, the nature and extent
of the sickness that prevailed, as well as the deaths
that took place among the out-door poor of the parish,
169 new cases were treated during the year, the attendances
on these cases does not include that given to permanent
paupers.
In the Zymotic class there were 20 cases, as against
30 in the previous year, including 2 of Measles, 6 of
Scarlet Fever, 5 of Whooping Cough, 4 of Diarrhoea,
2 of Typhoid Fever, and 1 of Erysipelas, with one death
from Typhoid Fever, which took place in Stock well
Fever Hospital.
In the other classes there were five deaths.