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The rate of mortality in the six sub-districts of the Parish varied from 19.7
in Kentish Town to 23.2 in Tottenham Court, whilst the other sub-distriets
stood as follows, in order of salubrity: next to Kentish Town was Regent's
Park, then Camden Town, next Gray's Inn Road, followed by Somers Town,
and Tottenham Court lowest on the list. In the order of infant mortality,
estimated by the proportion of deaths under 5 to the births, the sub-districts
were arranged as follows, beginuing with the least unhealthy:—Kentish Town,
Regent's Park, Gray's Inn Road, Camden Town, Somers Town, and Tottenham
Court.
Infant Mortality.—Compared with the gross population, the deaths
under 5 years were as 92 to every ten thousand; and as children under 5
years of age form about one-eighth of the entire population, the rate of
mortality amongst children at that age was about 73-6 per thousand, more
than three times the mortality at all ages.
Table I. gives a detailed account of the causes of death, and the ages at
wliich these causes proved fatal. The following is an abstract of the numbers
from the different classes of disease:—
I. Zymotic Diseases.
1. Miasmatic 984
2. Enthetic 31
3. Dietic 41
4. Parasitic 14
II. Constitutional Diseases.
1. Diathetic 142
2. Tubercular and Ricketty 792
III. Local Diseases.
1. Diseases of the Nervous System 468
2. Diseases of the Vascular System 183
3. Diseases of the Respiratory System 753
4. Diseases of the Digestive System 215
5. Diseases of the Uriliary Organs 67
6. Diseases of the Organs of Generation 13
7. Diseases of the Organs of Locomotion 7
8. Diseases of the Skin 14
IV. Developmental Diseases.
1. Malformations and Diseases of Infantile
velopment 95
2. Diseases of Development in middle age 17
3. Diseases of Development in old age 193
4. Diseases of Nutrition 163