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The deaths of Infants under 1 year of age numbered 28, equal
to 14.1 per cent. of the total deaths, and 160.0 to 1,000 registered
births.
In London, for the year 1897, the deaths of Infants under
1 year of age to 1,000 births were 159.
Old Age Mortality.
The deaths of parishioners over 60 years of age, occurring
within and out of the Parish, were 67.
34 were from 60 to 70 years of age.
20 „ „ 70 „ 80 „
8 „ „ 80 „ 90
5 ., ,, 90 „ 100 „
Causes of Death.
Zymotic Diseases.—The principal Zymotic Diseases are Smallpox,
Measles, Scarlet Fever, Diphtheria, Whooping Cough, Typhoid
Fever, Typhus Fever, Puerperal Fever, Cholera, and Diarrhœa.
The number of deaths occurring in the Parish from this
class of disease was 24. This number includes those nonparishioners
who died in the Charing Cross Hospital. After
deducting these, and adding those parishioners who died in
Public Institutions outside the Parish, the mortality due to
St. Martin's would be 15, against 31 of the previous year, 1896.
Vide Table 5.
Small-Pox.—Two cases of this disease were notified, one of
which I refused to accept, as I considered the case was not
contracted in the parish. On receiving the notification, I ascertained
the following particulars:—A man, a tailor by trade, and 55
years of age, had been residing for some little time at 12, Bear
Street, Leicester Square; he was suffering from Consumption, and
on the 28th December, 1896, he was admitted into the Cleveland
Street Asylum for treatment. On 25th February, 1897, two