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Much of the acreage of this district is comprised in the wharfage
upon the banks of the river and is uninhabited. If the uninhabited
affection were excluded from the calculations, the degree of density
could be represented by larger figures.
Norwood, on the other hand, contains a population of only 212
persons per acre, its mortality rate standing at 14*8 is the lowest
recorded among the districts.
In examining the table of deaths from all causes, it will be
observed that 1,259 deaths took place in children below the age of
the year. The deaths occuring in this class comprise twenty-five
per cent, of the whole number recorded, and in regard to infant
mortality, it is to be noticed that fourteen per cent, of the children
orn during the year, died before they had attained the age of one
year. Twenty-five per cent, of the deaths is referable to persons
ying at and over the age of sixty years. The remaining fifty per
cent. includes the deaths of persons dying between the ages of
ne and sixty.
To Consumption during the year is attributable the deaths of
67 persons, 384 of which died between the ages of twenty and
sixty years. 107 of the deaths from this disease are recorded as
accuring in the Brixton district.
It is worthy of note that 247 persons died after they had passed
their eightieth year, and in 107 of these death is attributable to
d age alone. 37 deaths are registered as directly resulting from
effects of excessive alcoholic indulgence, and of the 114 deaths
referred to liver disease, doubtless a large percentage is due to this
cause. No estimate however can be framed of the full effect of
coholic abuse upon the death rate ; the disease the proximate
cause of death, is recorded on the certificate, but not the agency by
which the disease is produced.
The principal contagious and infectious diseases, including
Diarrhœa are responsible during the year for the death of 719
persons, exceeding the return of the previous year by 79 cases, the
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