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One hundred and twenty-five deaths of children under
one year of age were registered, and this infantile mortality
is represented by a ratio of 111 deaths per thousand registered
births, a decrease of 36 per thousand on the previous year,
and 12 on the average for the past ten years. The rate for
England and Wales is 118. Here, again, only on two
occasions (1903 and 1905) has the infantile mortality rate
fallen below that of this year.
By the Zymotic death-rate we understand the number
of deaths per thousand of the population which are due to
the seven common epidemic diseases:— (1) Small Pox;
(2) Measles; (3) Scarlet Fever; (4) Diphtheria, including
Membraneous Croup; (5) Whooping Cough; (6) Fever,
including Typhus, Typhoid, and 111 Defined Fevers; and
(7) Diarrhoea.
These seven epidemic diseases may be divided into
notifiable and non-notifiable, and of the former, six were
due to Diphtheria, five to Scarlet Fever, and one to Enteric
Fever; and of the latter, 30 were due to Whooping Cough,
17 to Diarrhoea, and ten to Measles, making an aggregate of
69 deaths, or equal to a Zymotic death-rate of 1'3 per
thousand of the population.
In addition to the deaths from Zymotic diseases, the
principal causes of deaths were as follows:— Pneumonia, 47;
Bronchitis, 36; Cancer, 46; Phthisis, 40; other forms of
Tuberculosis, 17; Heart Disease, 54 ; and Premature Births, 15,
For the purpose of comparison the following Table is
given, in advance, by courtesy, from the Returns of the
Registrar General :—