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There were 16 deaths of illegitimate infants. The deathrate
of illegitimate infants under one year was 302 per 1,000
births, and that of legitimate children 81.
20. Compared with 1909, the past year had among
infante more deaths from premature birth, congenital defects,
whooping cough, diarrhoea, and overlying; and fewer
from measles, wasting diseases, convulsions, bronchitis, and
pneumonia. Deaths from overlying were 5, compared with
2, 8, 5, and 1 in the previous four years.
21. Still-Births. 92 still-born children were buried in
Woolwich and Plumstead Cemeteries, compared with 97, 9.3,
and 92, in the three preceding years.
94 still-births were notified.
22. Deaths under five years. The total deaths under five
years were 345, or 25.0 per thousand population under five
at the Census. The rates in the five preceding years were
36.5, 38.3, 41.9, 31.3, and 28.3.
The death-rate of children under five in 1910 was only
60 per cent. of the death-rate in 1905, which means that
305 children are living who would have died last year if
the former high death-rate had continued.
23. Zymotic death-rate. The number of deaths from the
seven principal zymotic diseases was 82, giving a death-rate
of 0.63, compared with 1.34, 0.92, and 1.06 in the three
preceding years.
The following table gives the zymotic death-rate in each
parish during the past nine years:—