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preceding years; being 0.9 below the decennial average and
2.6 below the London rate (18.5); this, moreover, being 2.6
below the average (21.1), and the lowest on record. It was 1.9
below the rate in England and Wales (17.8), also the
lowest on record. The rate in the Town sub-district was 17.3,
and in Brompton 12.1, as against 18.0, and 11.8 in 1887.
The rate in the male sex was 18.9, and in the female sex 13.9
per 1,000, as against 20.0 and 14.0 in 1887. There was one
death to every 62.6 inhabitants, as against one to 60.9 in 1887.
Out of 71,500 males, 1,353 died, equal to one in 52.8, against
one in 50 in 1887; whilst only 1,472 females died out of 105,500
or one in 716, against one in 71.4 in 1887. The deaths in the
first and fourth, or colder quarters (1,527), exceeded those in the
second and third, or warmer quarters (1,298), by 229. In the
three preceding years the difference in favour of the warmer
quarters was 22, 320, and 272 consecutively.
INFANTILE MORTALITY.
The deaths of young children always bear a high ratio to
total deaths. The deaths under five years were 1,077 (587 in
the first and fourth quarters, and 490 in the second and third
quarters), compared with 1,085, 1,029, and 1,129 in the three
preceding years; being equal to 38.1 per cent, on total deaths,
and to 28.5 on births registered: the equivalent percentages for
the whole Metropolis were 41.2, and 24.8. Under one year of
age the deaths were 604 (compared with 653, 636, and 680 in
1885-6-7 consecutively), and were equal to 21.4 percent, on total
deaths, and to 16.0 per cent, on registered births: the equivalent
percentages for the whole Metropolis being 24.3 and 14.6.
The deaths of illegitimate children under five years of age
were 101—males 54, females 47 (of which 82 were registered in
the Town sub-district) as against 86, 104, and 104 in the three