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Medical Officers of Health Annual Report.
institutions, 11 deaths occurred in the Union Infirmary,
and three in general and special hospitals, making a
corrected total of 49, compared with 56 in 1899, and
39 in 1898.
Violence was the cause of 31 deaths, 23 of males and
eight of females, seven more than in 1899, and 2 4
above the corrected average. Five of these deaths
occurred in the Asylum, while eight occurred in the
Union Infirmary, and nine in general and special hospitals,
a total of 17. Five deaths from violence, of
persons belonging to other parishes, occurred in this
parish. The corrected total was thus 38, compared with
27 in 1899.
Infantile Mortality.
The number of deaths under one year was
269, seven less than last year, and 11 less
than occurred in 1898. Three deaths occurred in
internal and 19 in external institutions, the corrected
total being 285, compared with 288 in 1899, and 292
in 1898.
Corrected for institutions, the infantile death-rate
was 162 per 1,000, compared with 160 in 1899, and 169
in 1898. For the whole of London this rate was 158.
The percentage of these deaths to the total deaths
was, corrected, 28.8, compared with 29.5 in 1899, and
29.8 in 1898.
This death-rate is still too high, but the high rate
was not due, as in previous years, so much to Diarrhoea
and other zymotic diseases, as to diseases of the organs
of respiration, and to tubercular diseases.
In 1899 there were 12 deaths of children under one
year from diseases of a tubercular nature, while in 1900
this number was 27.