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On comparing the Death Rates for these different Districts
for the years 1902 and 1903, we find that East Greenwich has
improved from 14.06 to 13.58, an improvement of 3 per cent.
West Greenwich has improved from 17.30 to 14.96, an improvement
of 14 per cent. Charlton has improved from 13.59 to
10.50, an improvement again of 22 per cent. Whilst St.
Nicholas has improved from 23.59 to 16.54, an improvement ot
29 per cent.; and Kidbrooke has improved from 6.14 to
4.03, or 34 per cent., from which it will be seen that the two
Districts which have most materially benefited from this very
efficient and thorough cleansing process, have been the Districts of
St. Nicholas and Kidbrooke, and it is only what one would have
anticipated in reference to the St. Nicholas District. Why, also,
the District of Kidbrooke should have so enormously benefited
is not, to my mind, so clear. As we study this question more
closely, we find that a great proportion of the improved Death
Rate in St. Nicholas is due to the diminution in the number of
deaths of young children.
The age mortality and the distribution of the deaths between
the respective quarters of the year are shewn by the following
table:—