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DEATHS.
454 Deaths were registered in the District during the year;
13 deaths of residents occurred in the Edmonton Union Infirmary;
5 in the Enfield Isolation Hospital; 2 in the Wandsworth Asylum;
1 in the Great Northern Hospital, and 1 in the Council's Isolation
Hospital, which makes a total of 476. From this total must be
deducted 10 deaths of non-residents that occurred in the Cottage
Hospital and the Shoreditch Branch Workhouse.
The corrected number is therefore 466, which is equal to an
annual death rate of 11.38 per 1,000 of the estimated population.
The average death rate of the previous 10 years was 11.88.
There were 145 deaths of children under one year, which corresponds
to a rate of 125 deaths to every 1,000 births.
The average for the previous 10 years was 139 deaths to every
1,000 births.
The deaths of children under five years were 200, which is equal
to a rate of 4.88 per 1,000 of the general population, against 4-oo
and 3.97 per 1,000 in the two previous years.
There were 44 deaths from various forms of Tubercular Disease,
28 of which were from Phthisis, against 40 and 47 in the two
previous years.
There were 56 deaths from Diseases of the Respiratory System,
against 37 and 66 in the two previous years.
ZYMOTIC DISEASES.
The deaths from the seven chief Zymotic diseases of the
Registrar-General (Smallpox, Measles, Scarlet Fever, Dipththeria,
Whooping Cough, Fever and Diarrhoea) were 100, which corresponds
to an annual rate of 2.44 per 1000, against 1.52 per 1,000
in 1903.
No case of Smallpox or of Typhus was notified during the year.