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In comparing the above with the Registrar-General's Returns, some
discrepancies will be observed, due to the fact that I have not been
furnished with the number of citizens who died in Institutions other than
those with which the City is connected.
The deaths from zymotic disease per 1,000 of the population was 0.44
compared with 1.70 in the Metropolis.
Infantile Mortality.
The deaths of children under one year of age to 1,000 births were 139,
against 129 for the whole of London.
The Table of infantile mortality on p. 15 shows the deaths of children
under one year arranged according to monthly age periods. From this it
will be seen that no less than 31 per cent. of these deaths occurred in the
first month, 38 per cent. within the first three months, and 69 per cent. in
the first six months of existence.
Deaths in City Institutions.
During 1905, 92 persons died in City Workhouses, Workhouse Infirmaries,
or Lunatic Asylums, or no less than 29.4 per cent. of the whole City mortality,
the corresponding figure for the Metropolis (1904) being 20.8 per cent.
This high percentage is caused in the City by the excessive proportion the
number of inmates in these places (exclusive of officers and their families)
bears to our population, the ratio being about 1 : 20, as compared with 1 : 94
in the Metropolis (Census 1901).
In other words, these figures represent that one in every 20 citizens is an
inmate of either a Workhouse, Workhouse Infirmary or a Lunatic Asylum,
in comparison with one in every 94 inhabitants of the Metropolis.