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Infantile
Mortality.
The deaths of children under one year of
age amounted to 29.7 per cent of the total
number of deaths. The true infantile mortality expressed
by the proportion of deaths under one year to births is
shewn in the following statement:—
Deaths under 1 year per 1,000 births—
In East Battersea 162
„ West „ 151
„ Clapham 122
,, Putney 151
„ Streatham 101
,, Wandsworth 114
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 1880—86 is compared with that of last year.
TABLE VII
Social Status.
1880
1881
1882
1883
1884
1885
1886
1887
Nobility & Gentry
3.40
2.71
3.43
2.48
4.41
2.76
2.79
3.16
Professional Class
5.50
5.12
4.44
5.66
6.25
4.67
75
6.78
Middle Class
16.91
19.00
20.85
19.59
25.66
19.10
18.94
16.43
Industrial Class
74.20
73.17
71.28
72.37
63.68
73.47
71.52
73.63
100.0
100.00
100.00
100.00
100.00
100.00
100.0
100.00
Causes of
Mortality.
The relative number of deaths from the
various diseases, are stated in Table VI.
zymotic diseases being given in greater detail. In the
following table, a comparison is made with the corresponding
deaths of the ten previous years.