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Wasting and Convulsive Diseases in Infants.
It has been already shown that the proportion which deaths
amongst infants under one year of age bear to total deaths is
in 1881 slightly greater than the average proportion of the
previous seven years. But the deaths from the Wasting
Diseases of Infants show a diminution. During 1881 these
diseases have constituted 64.8 in every 1000 deaths, or 1.8
per 1000 of population.
During the past seven years on an average 69.4 deaths from
these diseases in every 1000 deaths from all causes have been
registered, or 1.4 deaths among every 1000 persons living.
The deaths from Convulsive Diseases of Infants of the same
age have also decreased, constituting in 1881, 62.2 in every
1000 deaths from all causes, whereas the average during the
preceding seven years was 74.7, or calculated in proportion
in every 1000 of population it was 1.3 in 1881, and 1.5
during the preceding seven years.
Zymotic Diseases.
The diseases of the Zymotic class caused a larger proportion
of deaths during 1881 than in any previous year since
1871. Thus the seven principal Zymotic diseases caused
182.4 in every 1000 deaths from all causes, or 8.8 in every
1000 of population, as compared with an average of 156.1 in
every 1000 deaths from all causes in the preceding ten years,
and an average of 8.4 in every 1000 of population in the
preceding seven years. This is somewhat in excess of the
proportion which deaths from these diseases bear to total
deaths in the whole of London ; in 1881 this proportion was
170 3 to every 1000 deaths, or 3.5 in every 1000 of population.