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Mortality in former years.
The following table gives the death-rates of Fulham and of
London, uncorrected for age and sex distribution, during the
previous 10 years:—

The difference between the rate for 1901 and the average
rate of the previous 10 years in Fulham represents a saving of
395 lives.
Mortality at different ages.
Infantile Mortality.—Of the 2,179 deaths registered, 700 or
32.1 per cent. were of infants under the age of one year, and
the rate of infant mortality measured by the proportion of deaths
under one year to births registered was equal to 152 per 1,000.
The corresponding rate of the County of London was 148
per 1,000, the rates in the various boroughs ranging from 104 in
Hampstead, 107 in St. Marylebone and 115 in Stoke Newington
to 169 in Bermondsey, 175 in the City of London, and 197 in
Shoreditch. In the 32 large towns the rate was 180 per 1,000,
Halifax, 127, Bristol, 131, and Huddersfield, 132, being the
lowest rates, and Salford, 204, Preston 216, and Burnley, 226,
the highest,