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MARRIAGES.
2443 marriages were registered during the year in this parish, a rate
of 18.3 to every thousand persons living; this is, within a minute
fraction, the same as last year.
DEATHS OF INFANTS.
Of the deaths from all causes rather more than one fourth
(25.5 per cent.) were those of infants, for out of 5246 Children born
during the year, 784 died before attaining the age of one year, so that
only 4462 survived, this gives a death-rate, calculated on the total
births, of 149.4, or of 5.8 per thousand living at all ages, in other
words out of every thirteen children born only eleven attain the age of
one year. The diseases causing the highest mortality were Bronchitis
and Pneumonia 184,—Atrophy and Debility 121,—Convulsions 101,—
Tabes Mesenterica 53,—Pertussis 51—Diarrhoea 42,—Premature Birth
46,—Hydrocephalus, Acute and Chronic, 38,—Suffocation 36.
DEATHS OF YOUNG CHILDREN.
(Under 5 years).
1438 children under five years of age died last year—a per centage
of 46.8 on the total deaths, and being two per cent. lower than last year.
Assuming the proportion of young children to adults to have been
maintained since last Census, the number alive in the parish in the
middle of 1879 would be 20,135; a rate calculated upon this number
gives a mortality of 71.41 per thousand children living, against a corresponding
rate for the whole of London of 75.9.
DEATHS OF OLD PEOPLE.
(Over 60 years).
I estimate the population of old people over 60 in this parish at
7635; during last year 661 deaths amongst people over this age were
registered, this shows a death rate of 86.56 per thousand persons alive
over that age. The corresponding Metropolitan rate was 84.6.