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Deaths.
Exclusive of those in public institutions, the deaths
registered during the year numbered 316, to which must be
added 27 deaths of residents in the District which occurred
in institutions in Croydon, and 4 which occurred in the
Surrey County Asylum at Brookwood, making a total of 347,
of which 186 were deaths of males and 161 those of females.
This mortality corresponds to a death-rate of 11.56 per
1,000, as compared with 13.2 in 1896, an average of 12.4
during the preceding ten years, and 17.4 throughout England
and Wales during 1897.

* Exclusive of the deaths of non-residents occurring in public institutions
in the District, but inclusive of the deaths of residents occurring in public
institutions outside the District.
† The figures in brackets represent the rates for Beddington and Coulsdon
based on a population excluding the Female Orphan Asylum, Russell Hill
School, and Reedham Orphanage.
Mortality at Different Ages.
Infantile Mortality.—The number of infants under one
year of age who died in 1897 was 80, and the infantile deathrate,
which is always stated as the proportion of deaths to
registered births, was 97 per 1,000 births, as compared with
137 in 1896, an average of 112 during the ten years 1887 to
1896, and 156 for England and Wales during 1897.