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Report of the Medical Officer of Health.
increase of the population in some of the districts, and also that
such increase is chiefly among the industrial and labouring classes.
It is shown in the Table that the corrected zymotic deathrate
for the year is much lower than in any previous year. The
average death-rate for the last 10 years was 2.54 per 1,000,
compared with only 1.81 in 1901.
The Table is more correct than in former Reports, as the
rates have been calculated from the population estimated from
the Census returns, and shown on Table II. of the Local Government
Board's Tables.
The total number of infectious disease certificates received
during the year for the whole Borough and for the separate
sub-districts is shown on Table III. of the Local Government
Board's Tables.
The number received in the Borough since the passing of
the Public Health (London) Act, 1891, was as under: —