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Christchurch District 110 males
127 females
Total 237
In outlying institutions, St. Saviour's district has to be
credited with 97 deaths and Christchurch with 136, thus
bringing the total number of deaths to 682. Inquests, however,
were held on the bodies of eight persons not belonging
to the district, while seven deaths occurring in Christchurch
workhouse also were those of people not belonging to either
sub-district, bringing the corrected number of deaths down
to 667.
This shows an excess of births over deaths of 162.
The percentage of deaths for each age period was as
follows :—
25.8 of total deaths took place under the age of 1 year.
15.4 „ „ „ between the ages of 1 and 5 years
3.2 " " " " " 5 " 15 "
3.6 „ „ „ „ „ 15 „ 25 „
34.5 " " " " " 25 „ 65 „
17 5 " " " over the age of 65 years.
Compared with the death rates of the entire Metropolitan
District, our infant death rate stands as follows:—
The deaths of infants under the age of one year, in the
whole of London, equalled 25 5 per cent. of the total deaths,
and 16.5 per cent. of the registered births; while in the St.
Saviour's district those infants who died under the age of one
year equalled 25.8 of the total deaths, and 21 per cent. of
the registered births.
The deaths of children under five years of age, including
the above, were for London equal to 40.3 per cent. of the
total deaths, and 26.2 of the registered births; and for the
St. Saviour's district they were equal to 41.2 per cent. of
the total deaths and 335 of registered births.
The death-rate for the combined districts, counting the
combined population as 24,823 is 26.87, which gives a corrected
death-rate of 28.13.
Appended is a list of the various causes of death.