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The Registrar General has not yet published his Annual Summary
for 1908. I am therefore unable to say what exact position
will be assigned to Croydon on comparing the death-rate with those
of the other 76 towns, but from an examination of the four quarterly
reports, it would seem that Croydon maintains its position at the
head of what were the 33 great towns. The death-rate, however,
was considerably lower in many of the other 76 towns. For instance
Hornsey had a recorded death-rate of 8.3; East Ham 10.3; Willesden
10.5; King's Norton 10.5; Reading 11.7; and York 12.6.
INFANTILE MORTALITY is measured by the proportion of
deaths under one year to 1,000 births, and amounted to 99 as compared
with 94 in 1907, 125 in 1906, 96 in 1905, 128 in 1904, and 104
in 1903. During the year 1908 the rate for England and Wales was
121, while in the 76 large towns it ranged from 63 in Hornsey,
to 77 in Leyton, 96 in Tottenham, 99 in Willesden to 156 in Wigan,
158 in Middlesborough to 168 in Stockport. Though the rate for
1908 is comparatively satisfactory, it is a little higher than 1907.
A similar slight rise in the infantile mortality rate for the year was
recorded for England and Wales as a whole.

†lncluding 29 births at "89, Central Hill" (Servants Reformatory).
* Including 3 institution deaths which could not be distributed.

*Under "diarrhœal" diseases are included deaths from 'diarrhœa," from
epidemic and zymotic enteritis, and from enteritis, that is, from the causes classified
in schedules 10, 11, and 107 of Table IV.