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The annual number of births has increased enormously
since 1850, when it was only 1656, whilst in 1872 there were
no less than 4338 births registered. The birth rate to
population has increased considerably since 1851, as in that
year there was only 1 birth to each 332 inhabitants, whilst in
1871 there was 1 birth to each 301 inhabitants. This, however,
will not account for the whole change, especially as the
proportion of deaths under 1 year to the number of infants
registered is much smaller than for all London, being about 15
per cent. against about 17 per cent. for London. When the
ages of the popidation of this district are published in the
Census Tables, which, most probably, will not be for more than
a twelvemonth, we may be able to account for these changes by
comparing the returns for 1871 with the ages of the population
in 1851 and 1861.
In the four years which intervene between one and five
years of age, 160 deaths took place out of each 1000, the
smallest number being 133, and the highest 197 per 1000
deaths. There were only 58 in each 1000 deaths registered
between the ages of 5 and 15, the largest proportion being 73,
and the lowest, 40; between 15 and 25 the average was 58,
the highest being 73, and the lowest, 42. Between 25 and 35
the average rate of death was 72—the highest being 96, and
the lowest, 54; whilst between 35 and 45, when the average
was the same as at the last period, the highest was 83, and the
lowest, 60. Between 45 and 55 there were 74 deaths out of
each 1000—the highest number being 88, and the lowest, 60.
Between 55 and 65 there were no less than 85 out of each 1000
deaths—the highest rate being 102, and the lowest, 71, The
next column of the table shows that on an average 10 J per
cent. of all the deaths occurred between 65 and 75 years—the
largest rate being 128, and the lowest, 87 per 1000. The table
also shows that no less than 8 per cent. of the deaths happened
above 75 years of age, which is a very large proportion at so
advanced a period of life : the largest number was 100, and the
lowest, 66 per 1000. There were 23 per 1000 deaths registered
above 85 years—some of them above 100; indeed, with the
exception of 1859 and 1871, one or more persons died at an
age exceeding 95 in every one of these years.