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65
Ages at
Death.
Of the total deaths 46.8 per cent occurred
at various ages below 20 years; 41.3 per cent
of which were under the age of 5 years.
The deaths of persons over 60 years formed 26.8 per
cent of the total deaths as compared with 28 per cent in
the previous year.
The proportion of deaths under 1 year to the population
under that age (i.e. the number of births for the
last and the preceding year divided by two) represents
the true infantile death-rate. This was 126 per thousand
births as compared with 142 per thousand in the previous
year.
Social
Position of
Deceased.
The relative number of deaths in the several
social grades were as follows:—
Nobility and Gentry 51 = 8.5 per cent.
Professional Class 105 = 17.5 „
Middle and Trading Class 102 = 17.0 ,,
Industrial & Labouring Class 342 = 57.0 ,,
As is usually the case, the labouring classes suffered
greatly in excess of their relative numbers from zymotic
diseases, as indicated by their mortality.
Zymotic
Diseases.
The following table gives the number of
leaths from specific fevers, as eompared with
previous years, and a similar comparison of zymotic and