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died within the sub-district, of the number of these there
is no record, but there is reason to believe they nearly
balance the extra parochial deaths, so that 10.2 may be
safely accepted as the death-rate of Streatham for 1889.
Infantile Death-kate.
That is to say the number of deaths of infants under
one year of age per 1,000 of the registered births. This
year the infantile death-rate was 100'9 per 1,000 births,
as compared with 141 in London generally.
Social Tosition. The subjoined table gives the percentage of
deaths from all causes in the several social grades during
the year.
Nobility and Gentry 27 = 66 per cent.
Professional Classes 73 = 17.8 ,,
Middle and Trading Classes 143 = 34.9 ,,
Industrial and Labouring Classes 167 = 40.7 „
Total deaths 410 100.0
There was an increase in the Professional and Trading
and a decline in the Higher and Labouring Classes.
Zymotic Diseases,
their prevalence
and fat ality
There were 32 deaths in this class. Tliey
yield a percentage of 7 8 upon the
deaths from all causes during the year and give a deathrate
of 0 8 of the population.
The subjoined table contrasts all the deaths resulting
from the seven principal epidemic diseases with the
death-rate therefrom, as well as the death-rate from all
diseases during the last ten years.