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The death-rate in 1911 was 14.6 per 1,000, which was 1.1 per
1,000 above the rate in 1910, and equal to the rate in 1909, but
lower than the rate in any other year on record; compared with
the average rate in the ten years 1901-1910, the death-rate in
1911 showed a decrease of 0.8 per 1,000.
The rate of mortality among infants under one year of age to
1,000 registered births was 130, which is 24 per 1,000 above the
rate in 1910—the lowest on record—but is only 3 per 1,000 above
the average in the ten years 1901-1910, notwithstanding the excessive
heat and drought which prevailed in the third quarter of the
year. A higher infantile mortality than this was experienced in
43 out of the last 50 years.

In January, 1911, the Local Government Board intimated that
it was the intention of the Registrar-General to publish in his
Annual Report for 1911 and subsequent years, statistics of births,
deaths, and of certain causes of death for administrative instead of,
as hitherto, for registration (or poor law) areas, and it was found
necessary to revise and modity the Tables in order to minimise discrepancies
between the figures of Medical Officers of Health and
those of the Registrar-General.
Table 1 is altered as to births by the addition of columns
showing the uncorrected and corrected numbers, and the RegistrarGeneral
supplies Medical Officers of Health, through the County
Medical Officer, with the number of births—male, female, legitimate,
and illegitimate—to be added or deducted. The RegistrarGeneral
also in a like manner supplies particulars of all deaths of
persons belonging to the District and who have died outside the
area, and it is left to Medical Officers cf Health to exclude deaths
of non-residents.
Table 2 is now omitted, and in its place is the Infectious Disease
Table, which is slightly—though not materially—altered.