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DEATHS.

The deaths of males were 92 in excess of those of females, and the death-rate
amongst males was approximately 23 per cent. higher than amongst females.
The general death-rate for the Borough was 13.0 per 1,000 population, the lowest
yet recorded. The causes of death and the death-rates for the Borough and its eight
wards, together with other particulars respecting the mortality amongst the inhabitants
during the year, are given in Tables I, III, IV, V, and VI (Appendix).
The death-rate on an average was above the mean from the beginning of the
year until the end of May, when it came down and ranged below the mean until the
end of November. There was a sharp rise during the early part of December, mainly
the result of measles and diseases of the respiratory organs. The rate fell towards
the end of the month, but remained above the mean for the year. The highest point
touched was in the third week of December, when there were 49 deaths with a rate
of 24.5 per 1,000 ; the lowest was 7 per 1,000 during the first week of August.
The deaths amongst infants under one year numbered 232, of which 136 were of
males and 96 females. They amounted to 16.9 per cent. of the deaths at all ages.
The mortality amongst infants under one year was at the rate of 82 per 1,000 births
registered during the year as compared with 102 in 1922, 114 in 1921, and 91 in 1920,
and is the lowest so far recorded. The infantile mortality amongst males was 96
as compared with 67 amongst females.
The chief causes of death amongst infants under one year were prematurity,
atrophy, debility, and marasmus, pneumonia, diarrhoea and enteritis, congenital
malformations and bronchitis.
In Table IV (Appendix) is a statement showing the various causes of death
amongst infants under one year, the ages in weeks and months being given. The