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public institutions outside the parish. The death rate, whole
parish, was 15.5 per 1,000 for the period of 53 weeks, but 15.1
only calculated for an ordinary year of 52 weeks. It was the
lowest on record; 2.9 per 1,000 below the decennial average, 4.5
per 1,000 below the rate in England and Wales, (19.6), and 5.2
below the Metropolitan rate (20.3), this in turn being 1.9 below
the decennial average (22.2). The rate was 16.4 per 1,000 in the
Town sub-district, and 12.8 in Brompton: in the male sex, 18.3,
(18.7 in 1883), and in the female sex, 13.6, (13.4 in 1883).
Taking the parish as a whole, there was one death to 64.4 persons
living, (1 in 64.2 in 1883): 1,252 males died out of 68,200, or
1 in 54.4, (1 in 53-3 in 1883), and 1,386 females out of 101,800,
or 1 in 73.4, (1 in 74.5 in 1883). The deaths in the first
and fourth, or colder, quarters of the year, exceeded the deaths in
the second and third, or warmer, quarters by 132: in the four
preceding years the difference in favour of the warmer quarters
was 240, 120, 355 and 251 respectively.
INFANTILE MORTALITY.
The deaths of young children always bear a high ratio to total
deaths, but in 1884 this ratio was below the average. The deaths
under five years were 1,034, as against 1,114 and 982 in the two
previous years, and were equal to 39'2 per cent, on total deaths,
and to 23.5 per cent, on registered births, the relative percentages
in the Metropolis being 43.3 and 26.2. Under one year of age
there were 689 deaths, equal to 26.1 percent, on total deaths, and
to 15.6 per cent, on births registered, the relative percentages in
the Metropolis being 25.7 and 15.5.
The deaths of illegitimate children under five years of age were
100, 80 of them in the Town sub-district, as against 114 and 78
in the two preceding years, and were equal to 53.2 per cent, on
births registered as illegitimate. Of the 100 children only 25 outlived
their first year, and of these 19 died in the second year. The
causes of deaths, as registered, were inanition, premature birth and
.atelectasis, 29; tubercular diseases, 18; diseases of the lungs, 18;