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Of the total deaths, 41.7 per cent, were those of children under
5 years of age, being 6.2 per cent, less than the average number for
the last ten years.
The proportion of deaths which belonged to your District, and
were registered as having occurred in Public Institutions, was 258.
Diseases of a Zymotic character caused the deaths of 283
persons, of which number, 194 were below the age of 5 years.
Forty-two deaths were due to Smallpox, of which 12 occurred in the
District; 27 in the Hospitals belonging to the Metropolitan Asylum
District Board; and 3 in the Highgate Hospital. The annual
average mortality from this disease during the last ten years, was
30.8. Of every 1,000 deaths registered, 29 were due to this disease.
Two hundred and forty-six cases were reported to me, and they
were spread over the year as follows:—
January 11 cases.
February 32 „
March 44 ,,
April 29 „
May 27 „
June 29 „
July 9 cases.
August 3 ,,
September 14 ,,
October 21 ,,
November 18 ,,
December 9 „