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This is an important table, as a continuously high rate of
infant mortality is an indication of a want of proper sanitary
arrangements, of care by the parents, or of unusual poverty and
its attendant evils. The rate this year is very high owing to the
large number of infantile deaths from diarrhoea, convulsions,
bronchitis, premature birth, debility, and atrophy. The total
number of deaths under 1 year was 671, out of which no less
than 334 were registered as caused by the affections just
enumerated. The percentage for the year was 25.9 per cent, of
the total deaths, against the 23 years' average of 21.6 per cent.
There were 357 deaths above 1 year and under 5, or 13.7 per
cent., making a total of 1028 deaths under 5 years, or 39.6 per
eent. of the whole, against the average of 37.6 per cent. There
were 90 deaths between 5 and 15, or 3.5 per cent.; 116 between
15 and 25, or 4.5 per cent., which is the smallest rate at these
ages, with one exception, which has been registered since 1850.
There were 178 deaths between 25 and 35, or 6.9 per cent.; 182
between 35 and 45, or 7.0 per cent.; 193 between 45 and 55, or
7.4 per cent.; 232 between 55 and 65, or 9.0 per cent.; 277
between 65 and 75, or 10.7 per cent.; 229 between 75 and 85, or
no less than 8.8 of the whole. There were 62 persons who lived
for a longer period than 85 years; 7, or 0.2 per cent, who
reached the exceeding great age of 95 and upwards. There were
no less than 114 deaths registered, out of each 1000, above what