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18 from Debility from Birth and Premature
Birth
5 ,, Old Age and
31 „ Various Causes
149
75 were males and 74 females
41 were under 1 year of age and 32 above 65.
When the census was taken in 1891, the
population of Teddington was 10,025, but it has
since then rapidly increased and it is now estimated
to be quite 14,000. Taking this number as approximately
correct and deducting 2 deaths of persons,
who died, but did not reside in the District, the
mortality from all causes is at the average annual
rate of 10.5 for every 1,000 persons living. This
rate compares very favourably with that of last year,
which was 12, and very low for your district.
The number of births was 284, of which 151
were males and 133 were females.
The birth rate was 20.28 and the infantile
mortality 144 per 1,000 births. This mortality of
children under one year of age is very high, nearly
28 per cent. of the total number of deaths. If we
add the 19 deaths of children under five years, we
find that over 47 per cent. of the total number of
deaths were infants. Infantile mortality is always a
fair test of the general social and sanitary conditions
affecting infant life, but the high mortality for the
past year was not due to any prevalent epidemic;
but was in a great part due to bad nursing and
improper food, which the infants could not digest,
and which acted as an irritant to the stomach and
intestines. Most of the deaths were certified,
diarrhoea, marasmus, inanition, convulsions, and
rachitis.