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Deaths at
different ages.
The deaths of children under 5 years of
age amounted to 47.2 per cent of the total
deaths, as compared with 46.4 per cent in the previous
year. At the other extreme of life, i.e. at 60 years of
age and upwards, 21.9 per cent of the total deaths
occurred as compared with 21.2 per cent in the previous
year.
Infantile
Mortality.
The deaths of children under one year of
age amounted to 31.7 per cent of the total
number of deaths. It is evident however, that this does
not represent the true infantile mortality, as the per
centage proportion of infantile deaths to total deaths
will obviously vary with the number of children born.
Hence it is necessary to express the mortality under one
year in terms of the number living at that age, as
obtained from the birth-returns. The following expresses
the result as stated in this way:—
Deaths under 1 year per 1,000 births—
In East Battersea 169 In Wandsworth 164
,, West ,, 153 England & Wales 150
,, Clapham 142 ,, 20 great towns 169
,, Putney 150 „ Leicester 211
,, Streatham 133 „ Preston 233
Social Position of Deceased.
In the following table the relative proportion
per cent of the mortality borne by the
several classes of inhabitants of the District during the
years 1879—85 is compared with that of last year.