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The total indicates a marriage rate of 14.35 to every thousand
persons; or, as in each marriage there are two contracting parties,
28.7 per thousand of our population entered the bonds of
matrimony.
DEATHS OF INFANTS.
One fourth of the deaths from all causes were those of infants
aged less than twelve months, for out of 4998 children born alive,
827 died before reaching the age of one year. This gives a death
rate, calculated upon the births, of 165.5. The corresponding rate
for the whole of London being 154. The diseases most fatal to
infants were:—
Chest Diseases 155
Convulsions 136
Premature Birth 72
Whooping Cough 50
Diarrhoea 46
Suffocation 40
Tabes Mensenterica 26
DEATHS OF YOUNG CHILDREN.
As usual nearly half the deaths (1449, equal that is to 44.15 per
cent.), were those of children aged less than five years. This
gives a death rate of 75.8 calculated upon the estimated population
of young children.