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2
at Brookwood Asylum, and 31 at Kingston Infirmary. The
deaths which occurred within the district among persons not
belonging thereto which have come to my knowledge were 2
in Atkinson Morley's Hospital.
Infant mortality is represented by a ratio of 118 deaths
under one year of age to 1,000 registered births, as against
156 deaths per 1,000 births in England and Wales for the
same period. This rate varies very much with the diarrhœal
mortality and the increasing number of deaths from measles.
Between the ages of 1 and 60 there were 175 deaths, and 94
deaths of persons aged 60 years and upwards.
The death-rate from all Zymotic diseases was 2 0 per
thousand of the population per annum.
Influenza caused 4 deaths, against 4 last year, 14 in 1895,
10 in 1894, and 20 in 1893.
There were 20 deaths from bronchitis, 21 from pneumonia
and 17 from phthisis, (see Table 6, in w hich is classified the
whole of the deaths as to their causes and ages). In column
1 will be seen the chief causes of mortality among the 98
infants who died during the year. Comparing the deaths from
Respiratory diseases with those that occurred last year it is
satisfactory to note a slight improvement.
The number of deaths from Zymotic diseases (including
Influenza) was 70, viz.: from Measles 16; Scarlet Fever 2;
Diphtheria 6; Diarrhoea 29; Whooping Cough 7; Enteric
Fever 1; Puerperal Fever 1; Erysipelas 2; Influenza 4;
Membranous Croup 1; Septicaemia 1.
Table A shows for the last year and the four preceding
years the births, deaths, death-rates, and the deaths at certain
ages, and from specified causes.