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32 Report of the Medical Officcr of Health.
Ages at Death.
The following Table shows the percentage of deaths to total
deaths at six age periods for each sub.district and for the whole
Borough.

Compared with 1906 the percentage of deaths under one year
was 4.32 lower, due wholly to the c.onsiderable decrease in the
number of infants from Diarrhoea and Zymotic Enteritis; from
one to five years .05 higher; from five to 15 years .65 higher;
from 15 to 25 years .34 higher; from 25 to 65 years .n lower;
and from 65 years and upwards 4.39 higher.
There is a considerable diversity in these rates in the different
sub.districts.
In Putney the rate under one year was only 17.36, while in
Tooting it was 35.24, while over 65 years of age the position is
reversed, Tooting having a rate of 17.62 and Putney of 36.65.
In Putney the birth-rate is low and the infantile mortality
low, as this sub.district is largely occupied by well.to.do people
with a high age average. Again, at from one to five years the
rate is still high in Tooting and low in Putney, and also at ages
five to 15 and 15 to 25 years, while at ages 25 to 65 the Tooting
rate is much lower and is the lowest of the five sub.districts.