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SENILE MORTALITY.
The number of persons aged over 65, who died during
the year, numbered 414, a proportion of twenty-one per
cent of the total deaths at all ages. This gives a death
rate of 72.1, calculated upon the estimated population
of elderly persons.
WEEKLY MORTALITY.
The usual charts shewing the numbers of deaths
week by week in the Borough will be found on the next
page. The figures are corrected for institution deaths.
QUARTERLY AND ANNUAL DEATHS
AND MORTALITY RATES.
Tables J and K overleaf shew, in addition to actual
numbers of deaths, the quarterly and annual rates of
births and deaths, also mortalities from the principal
Zymotic diseases and from Phthisis.
THE PRINCIPAL ZYMOTIC DISEASES.
The deaths recorded as from diseases included in this
group, and upon which the zymotic mortality is
calculated, numbered 182 against 254 in 1909, a decrease
of 72. Nearly all the fever and diphtheria deaths
occurred in hospitals, as will be seen from the following
table:—