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for the whole of London being 155. The diseases most fatal
to infants were:—
Atrophy and Debility 152
Chest Diseases 169
Convulsions 87
Premature Birth 64
Whooping Cough 39
Diarrhœa 44
Suffocation 35
Tabes Mesenterica 23
Tubercular Meningitis 25
DEATHS OF YOUNG CHILDREN.
As usual nearly half the deaths (1439, that is 48.22 per cent.),
were these of children aged less than five years. This gives a
rate of 76 per thousand calculated upon the estimated population of
young children.
OLD PEOPLE'S DEATH RATE.
The deaths of elderly people (that is to say, of persons over 65
years of age), numbered 487, or 132 fewer than during the
previous year. This gives a rate of 65.5 per theusand calculated on
the estimated population of old people.