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to 101,962 persons over that age ; assuming these
proportions to remain relatively the same in 1878, the
number of young children then existing would be
19,939; taking this estimate as the basis of our calculation
we shew a death rate of 72.37 per thousand
children living, against a corresponding rate of 78.3
for all London; so far as we are concerned we may
look upon this as fairly satisfactory.
DEATHS OF OLD PEOPLE.
The estimated population of old people upon the
same plan as that given above would be 7,561, and as
545 deaths were registered amongst people aged over
60 years, we shew a death rate of 72.07 per thousand
living at that age. The corresponding rate for all
London was 76.4.
SPECIAL CAUSES OF DEATH.
(Vide Table III.)
Class I.—ZYMOTIC DISEASE.
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The orders included under this head are Miasmatic,
Enthetic, and Parasitic. The total number of deaths
from all four orders was 557, of which 440, or nearly
four-fifths, were those of young children, amongst
whom the greatest mortality occurred between the
ages of one and two years, 7 8 children under the latter
age dying from Whooping Cough, 27 from Diarrhoea,
and 24 from Measles.