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DEATHS.
The death rate for 1914 equalled 11.3 and the corrected death
rate 11.55 per thousand of the population, the total deaths numbering
1,695. Of this number 1,432 were registered in the district; 230 were
non-residents who died in Tottenham, and whose deaths are debited
to the respective districts to which they belonged; 493 Tottenham
residents died in other districts, and have been debited to us.

The deaths for 1913 numbered 1,621, being 74 fewer than occurred
during 1914. In making comparison of the figures for the two years,
one is at once struck with the increase by 68 of deaths from "Other
defined diseases." The increase occurs principally between the ages
of 35 and 45, when the excess numbered 19; and between the ages
of 55 and 85, when the excess amounted to 62. In certain of the
other age groups there are small reductions in the numbers of deaths.
Deaths from Measles numbered 13; from Diphtheria 37; from
Diarhœa 58: Scarlet Fever accounted for 8 deaths, Enteric Fever
for 4 and Whooping Cough for 24; 149 persons died from Pulmonary
Tuberculosis, and 24 from Cancer in one form or another.
Two facts emerge from a comparison of last year's figures with
the figures for 1914. First, the deaths from Enteric Fever, Scarlet
Fever and Diphtheria have all increased. These are the infectious
diseases that are usually treated in hospital. But as a sufficient number
of beds was not available for the reception of anything like the numbers
of our sufferers from these diseases, there was a fairly plentiful overflow
into the homes of the people. The propagation of the diseases was
thus fostered, for adequate isolation could not be afforded in many
instances and the probability is that more contracted the disease than