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It will be seen from the foregoing table (comparing the corrected death-rates) that among the
several sanitary areas in the quinquennium 1904-8, Holborn (2.24) had the highest phthisis death-rate
and Hampstead (0 75) the lowest; in the year 1909 Finsbury (2.24) had the highest death-rate, the
lowest again obtaining in Hampstead (0.60). The death-rates from phthisis in each of the four
quarters of the year 1909 were as follows: first quarter, 1.65; second quarter, l.20.; third quarter,
1.06; and fourth quarter, 1.34, per 1,000 persons living.
The following table enables comparison to be made between the phthisis death-rates in the
several sanitary areas for each of the years 1901-1909, inclusive. These death-rates are corrected
for differences in the age and sex constitution of the various populations, and it will be seen that while
there is a general tendency to decline in the death-rates, there is a considerable difference in the amount
of decline in the rates of the different districts; in the later years, however, the rates may in some
districts be subject to considerable modification when further corrections can be made for the intercensal
changes in the sex-age constitution of the populations. To facilitate comparison the districts are
arranged in the ascending order of their death-rates in the first year shown in the table, viz., 1901.

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