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Deaths of Infants under 1 year of Age.
279 deaths of infants under 1 year of age were registered, being
equal to 1 death in every 5'92 of all registered births, and 1 death in
every 8'89 of all registered deaths.
Deaths of Children under 1 and up to 5 years of Age.
472 children died under 5 years of age, which gives 1 death in
every 3'50 registered births, and 1 death in every 230 of all registered
deaths.
The infantile mortality was almost the same as in the preceding
year, and again below the average.
Deaths of Persons 60 years and upwards.
238 persons died at 60 years and upwards, giving the following
rate of mortality: 1 death in every 4.67 of all registered deaths and
in every 224 of population.
The Workhouse, Broad Street.
Births.—115 children were born in the Workhouse, nearly onethird
of whom belonged to the Strand Union.
Deaths.—142 paupers died in the Workhouse, 68 in the Cleveland
Street Hospital of the Central Sick Asylum, and 10 in Hampstead and
Stockwell Hospitals of the Metropolitan Asylum Board, making a
total of 220 pauper deaths.
I have to acknowledge the kindness of the various Officers of the
Guardians for at all times affording me valuable information.
The British Lying-in Hospital, Endell Street.
Of the 121 children born in the British Lying-in Hospital, 4
belonged to St. George, Bloomsbury, 7 to St. Giles South, 5 to St.
Giles North, whilst the remaining 105 were children of mothers
previously resident in other parts of the metropolis.
Only one case of twins occurred during the year.
Five children were still-born.
Six mothers and 7 children died during the year. The mothers died
within a short period of each other from puerperal fever. The spread
of this disease caused much anxiety both to the Committee and Staff.
The Hospital was closed, cleansed and disinfected, which arrested the
further spread of the disease, and since its reopening no fresh cases
of fever have occurred.