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The death-rate in England and Wales in 1905 was 15.2 per
1,000, which is lower than the rate in any previous year on
record, and compared with the average of the previous 10 years
shows a decrease of 2.0 per 1,000.
Infantile Mortality.—There were 36 deaths of infants
under one year of age, which gives an infantile death-rate of 777
per 1,000 births registered as against 79.3 in the preceding year,
87.1 in 1903, and 83 in 1902.
This is a very low rate, and the lowest on record for this
District.
The average rate for the 10 years 1895 to 1904 was 110.
The infantile death-rate for England and Wales was 12.8,
which is 18 per 1,000 below the rate in 1904, and lower than the
rate in any other year on record.
Senile Mortality.—Among persons of 70 years of age
and over, 48 deaths occurred, and of these 20 were 80 years of
age and over, and 3 were 90 years of age and over. This is a
proportion of 27 per cent. of the total number of deaths at all
ages as against 22.8 per cent. in the preceding year.
This is a high rate of senile mortality, and is good evidence
as to the healthiness of the District.
Zymotic Mortality.—This includes the deaths from
the seven principal zymotic diseases, viz. Smallpox, Scarlet
Fever, Diphtheria, Typhoid Fever, Measles, Whooping Cough,
and Diarrhœa. This rate affords useful evidence as to the general
healthiness of the District, and as to the efficiency of its sanitary
administration. There were 16 deaths from these diseases as
follows:—Diphtheria, 4; Typhoid Fever, 1; Measles, 2; Whooping
Cough, 2; and Diarrhcea 7.
The zymotic death-rate was therefore .71 per 1,000 of the
population, as against 79 in 1904, 1.0 in 1903, and .82 in 1902.
The average rate for the 10 years 1895 to 1904 was 1.3.
The zymotic death-rate for England and Wales was 1.52.
The Causes Of Deaths are fully set forth in Table I.
(i.) for the whole District, and (ii.) for each of the four localities.
Table Ia. shows the deaths during each quarter of the year, and
in Table Ib. are set forth the causes of infantile mortality.
There was no marked incidence of any particular disease
either upon the District as a whole, or upon any one locality; but
as usual Phthsis and other Tubercular diseases were far more
prevalent in New Southgate than in the three other localities, as
shown by the proportionate number of deaths from these causes.
The Public Mortuary.—During the year 17 bodies
were deposited in the Mortuary, as against 9 in the preceding
year and 8 in 1903.