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Infantile Death-rate.
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 112 per 1,000 births,
as compared with 163 in registration London.
Social Position.
The subjoined table gives the percentage of
deaths from all causes in the several social grades during
the year.
Nobility and Gentry 29 = 5.8 per cent.
Professional Classes 83 = 16.8 ,,
Middle and Trading Classes 195 = 39.4 „
Industrial and Labouring Classes 188 = 38.0 ,,
Total deaths 495 100.0
The rate of mortality was high in the Middle and
Trading Classes and declined in the Higher, Labouring,
and Professional Classes.
Zymotic Diseases,
their prevalence
and fatality.
There were 79 deaths in this class. They
yield a percentage of 15.3 upon the deaths
from all causes during the year and give a
death-rate of 1.8 per 1,000 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 past ten years.