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DEATHS IN RELATION TO
TENEMENTS.
This year we have again classified the deaths in relation to the
number of rooms occupied by the persons who have died. The causes
of death have been divided into (a) all causes, (b) zymotic disease
(including the notifiable diseases, influenza, and zymotic enteritis),
(c) phthisis, and (d) respiratory diseases other than phthisis. The
results appear to show that the smaller the tenement the higher is the
death rate from all causes and from the diseases named. This is an
instructive result when it is considered that each of the five years tells
the same story. It is necessary, however, to recognise that the figures
are of relative value only, for it must not be assumed that a man dying
of phthisis in a one-roomed tenement in 1907 has lived all his life in
that tenement. He may only have been living there a few months or
years, his disease having been contracted elsewhere. But even as a
relative return the figures are striking, and illustrate in a marked
manner the broad fact of the evil effects of living under "overcrowded
" conditions.