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I regard the method adopted in the present report as more
accurate, and should consider that the method adopted in former
years (from want of the necessary data) as rather over-estimating
the death rate.
Infantile Mortality.
The number of deaths of children under 1 year was in
Edmonton district 133, and in Edmonton Workhouse belonging
to district, 1, total 134; from these should be deducted 18, attributed
to premature birth, leaving 116; this, using the mean
of registered births in 1894 and 1895 = 917 as the basis of
calculation, gives an infantile mortality of 122 65 per 1000 births,
a decidedly lower rate than that of last year calculated in the
same way, = 13224 per 1000.
All the deaths were certified by registered medical practitioners,
or after coroner's inquests, of which 46 were held during
the year, in 10 of these the death was attributed to other than
natural causes, viz., suffocation in bed of infants 5, scalds 1,
injuries from falls 2, run over by train at level crossing 1,
drowning 1 ; all these were returned as accidental death, and no
case occurred of death resulting from any breach of the law. Of
the 36 natural deaths, 17 were children under 2 years of age.
Zymotic Death Rate.
The deaths from the principal zymotic diseases were:—
Scarlet Fever 4
Diphtheria 8
Membranous Croup 4
Enteric Fever 5
Measles 5
Whooping Cough 8
Diarrhoea 38
Total 72
One death from diarrhoea in an elderly man is excluded.
Zymotic death rate, taking estimated population plus
Edmonton residents in Workhouse, as basis of calculation =
2375 per 1000.