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Infantile Death-rate.
The deaths of infants under one year of age per 1,000
of the registered births were 108, as compared with 112
in 1890. In registration London the proportion was
154 per 1,000 births.
Social Position. The subjoined table gives the proportion of
deaths in the several social grades.
Nobility and Gentry 22 4 per cent.
Professional Classes 75 13.6 „
Middle and Trading Classes 204 36.7 ,,
Industrial and Labouring Classes 254 45.7 „
Total deaths 555 100.0
The proportion of deaths was high as compared with
last year in the Trading and Industrial Classes, and
declined in the Higher and Professional Classes.
Zymotic Diseases, their prevalence and fatality.
There were 95 deaths in this class, including
21 from influenza. They yield a percentage
of 17.1 upon the deaths from all causes. The
seven principal diseases in this class give a death-rate of
1.7 per 1,000 of the population.
The following table contrasts all the deaths resulting
from the seven principal epidemic diseases with the
death-rate therefrom, as well as the death-rates from all
diseases during the past ten years.