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certified by the Medical Officers of Metropolitan Medical
Charities; and could they be accurately separated from the
other fatal cases would probably to a great extent counterbalance
the deaths of parishioners in outlying Institutions.
If to the mortality registered in the sub-district, 1,184, be
added 136 deaths in outlying Institutions we get a total of
1320, which would equal a death-rate of 20 per thousand;
not of persons dying in the sub-district, but of deaths among
its residents both in the sub-district and and elsewhere. This
is according to the official, mean population, but if the estimated
mean population of 67,205 be used in computing the death-rate
of the whole of the residents of East Battersea, there would
be deduced a death-rate of 19.6 per thousand per annum,
contrasting favourably with the mortality for the Metropolis
of 20.3 per thousand, a difference in favour of the sub-district
of 0.7 per thousand. It is to be anticipated that as the parish
becomes more densely populated, the death-rate will
approximate to, if not be identical with, that of the Metropolis
at large.
Ages at Death.—Under one year of age there occurred 466
death or 39.2 per cent, of deaths at all ages; and from one to
five years 309 other deaths, equal to 26.1 per cent, of the total
mortality of 1,184. Unitedly the percentage of deaths during
the infantile period of life, under five years, was 65.4, the total
number of such deaths being 775.
This is somewhat in excess of the average, and higher than
the preceding year 1883, by 5.1 per cent, arising from the
fact that during the year under review 116 deaths were
registered from premature birth and low vitality against
74 in the preceding year, and that a great increase in the
number of deaths occurred amongst infants from zymotic
diseases. Thus, during 1883, a most exceptionally healthy
vear, 152 deaths from these diseases were recorded in children
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