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City of London 1866

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for London, City of]

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The ages at death are classified in Table No.
IV. of the Appendix ; and it will be noticed that
of every 1,000 deaths in the City during the year,
170 were among infants of less than a year old,
and there were 305 among children at less than
five years of age, while 74 were at from five to
twenty years of age, 147 from twenty to forty, 193
from forty to sixty, and 271 at sixty and upwards.
The infant mortality is undoubtedly excessive,
although it is not so large as it has been in former
years; in fact, it has declined from an average of
185 per 1,000 of the children born to 152. This
is close to the average (151) for the whole metropolis,
but it is a little above the average for all
England (149). In the Eastern division of the
City the infant mortality has reached to 168 per
1,000 of the births, while in the Western it has
been but 147 per 1,000, and in the City proper
only 136. These numbers represent not only the
differences in the sanitary condition of the several
districts, but they also represent, as I have before
explained to you, the poverty and other necessitous
means of the population.
The chief causes of death during the year are
shown in Table No. V. of the Appendix, and they
may be thus expressed:—