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82
In this Table, it is to be noted, are included deaths
occurring in various Institutions in Streatham and
Wandsworth, such as the St. Anne's Home, Hospital for
Incurables, St. Peter's Hospital, and the Middlesex
County Lunatic Asylum, which receive patients from
all parts of London, and not from this district.
Ages at
Death.
Of the total deaths 23.3 per cent. were of
infants under 1 year of age, and 30.3 percent.
were of persons over 60 years of age.
Infantile
Death-rate.
The number of deaths of infants under 1
year, per thousand births, is represented by
the following figures for each sub-district:-
Clapham 128 per 1,000
Putney 98 ,,
Streatham 108 ,,
Tooting 121 „
Wandsworth 119 „
Whole District 116 „
The corresponding rate for 1890 was 144, and the rate
for the whole of London was 154 per thousand.
Causes of
Death.
Table VII. gives a comparison between the
number of deaths in 1891 and the preceding
years.