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DEATHS OF INFANTS.
Over 30 per cent. (30.7) of the deaths from all causes were those
of infants aged less than twelve months; for out of 4,779 infants
born alive, 884 died before reaching the age of one year ; thus giving
a death rate, calculated upon the births, of 184.3, whilst the
corresponding rate for the whole of London is 166.
DEATHS OF YOUNG CHILDREN.
Nearly half the deaths (1,427, that is 49.7 per cent.) were those
of children aged less than five years, giving a proportion equivalent
to a rate of 79.3 calculated upon the estimated population of young
children.
OLD PERSONS' DEATH RATE.
The deaths of old persons, that is to say people over 65 years of
age, numbered 434, this gives a rate of 91.4 per thousand calculated
upon the estimated population of persons over that age.
SPECIAL CAUSES OF DEATH.
Table III. is prepared from the weekly mortality returns of the
District Registrars and from the monthly returns of extra-parochial
Institution deaths received from Somerset House. At the foot of
the table is shown a mortality rate for each of the diseases or classes
of diseases therein enumerated.