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persons in 1901, 4,949 aged 10 years and upwards and 2,334 aged less than 10. According to
the results of the enumeration of last year the total population was 6,259 persons, 4,207 aged
10 and over, 2,052 aged less than 10 vears.
Vital Statistics.—Certain rates from disease and death during the past two years are
given in Table 48. Enteric fever was the only disease which showed an increased prevalence
last year, that increase being, however, due to direct spread of infection in two families, the
circumstances of which have been detailed in the first part of this report (page 18). The
reduction in the prevalence of scarlet fever amounted (approximately) to 75 per cent, of the
rate for 1909, the reduction in the "Rest of the Borough" being rather more than 50
per cent.

The mortality at all ages (27.65) was over 3 per 1,000 less than the rate for the previous
year, but still in excess of that for 1908 (23.08). The age-group rates were both lower last
year than in 1909, and that for the age-group 10 years (16.98) less than the same rate for
1908 (18.88). At ages under 10 the mortality rate for last year while considerably less than
that for 1909 was slightly above the corresponding rate for 1908.
There was so slight a change in the numbers of the population enumerated in the two
years that the actual numbers of deaths will serve to compare the changes in mortality.

The deaths from tubercular phthisis (consumption) numbered 12 and 10 in the two years.
There was a satisfactory reduction in infantile mortality from 220 per 1,000 births in
1909 to 122 last year. In 1908 the rate was 173. The proportion of deaths in institutions