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[1914
SEASONAL MORTALITY.
First Quarter.—The deaths in the first quarter numbered 1,414, as contrasted
with a corrected average of 1,409 in the preceding ten years, and were
equal to an annual death rate of 17.41 per 1,000, which contrasted with a mean
decennial rate of 17.36.
Second Quarter.—1,100 deaths were registered, or four above the corrected
average for the 10 years 1904-1913; these were equal to an annual death-rate
of 13.35 per 1,000, as contrasted with the mean decennial rate of 13.50.
Third Quarter.—The deaths numbered 1,143, which was 109 more than the
average, after correction for increase of population, of the 10 years 1904-1913,
while the death rate was equal to an annual death rate of 14 07 per 1,000, as
compared with the mean decennial rate of 12.73 per 1,000.
Fourth Quarter.—1,281 deaths were registered, as contrasted with a
corrected average of 1,294 in the ten years preceding; they were equal to an
annual death-rate of 15.78 per 1,000 inhabitants, as compared with the mean
decennial rate of 15.94.
DEATHS IN THE REGISTRATION SUB-DISTRICTS.
1 he death-rates in the several sub-registration districts varied from 12.15
per 1,000 inhabitants in Highbury to 17.97 in Barnsbury.

Further particulars respecting the sub-districts are given in Table XVII.,
which shows not only the number of deaths for each year since 1907 but also
the average for seven years.