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The rate for London was 16.2 persons married to one thousand
of the population; this, the lowest marriage rate yet recorded in
the metropolis, was 21 per thousand lower than that of Bethnal
Green.
DEATHS OF INFANTS.
Nearly twenty-eight per cent. of the deaths from all causes were
those of infants aged less than twelve months; for, out of 4989
children born alive, 814 died before reaching the age of one year,
leaving only 4175 who attained that age: this gives a death rate
calculated upon the births of 163.1. The corresponding rate for
the whole of London was 158.0. The diseases most fatal to infants
were:—Inflammatory Chest Diseases (169); Atrophy and Debility
(120); Premature Birth (85); Diarrhoea (86); Convulsions (82);
Tabes (34); and Suffocation (33).
DEATHS OF YOUNG CHILDREN.
As usual nearly half the deaths (1412, equal, that is, to 48.4 per
cent.), were those of young children aged less than five years.
Assuming that the proportion of young children to adults has
been maintained since the last census, the number of young children
in 1887 would be 19,830. Upon this estimated population we shew
a death rate of 71.20.