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(a) All " Transferable Deaths" of residents, i.e., of persons resident in the District who have died outside
it. are included with the other deaths in columns 2—10. Transferable deaths of non-residents, i.e.,
of persons resident elsewhere in England and Wales who have died in the District, are in like
manner excluded from these columns. For the precise meaning of the term "transferable deaths"
see footnote to Table IV.
(b) All deaths occurring in institutions for the sick and infirm situated within the district, whether of
residents or of nonresidents, are entered in column 11 of Table VI.
(c) All deaths certified by registered Medical Practitioners and all Inquest cases are classed as
fied ," all other deaths are to be regarded as " Uncertified."
(d) This heading includes all deaths from croup except those certified as due to "spasmodic," stridulous,"
catarrhal," or " false " croup
(e) Under *' Tuberculous Meningitis" are included deaths from Acute Hydrocephalus.
(f) Under "Cancer" are included deaths under such headings as Carcinoma, Scirrhus, Epithelioma.
Rodent ulcer. Sarcoma, Cancer, and Malignant Disease.
(g) Under this heading are included deaths registered as due to Epidemic diarrhoea. Epidemic enteritis.
Infective enteritis. Zymotic enteritis. Summer diarrhoea, Choleraic diarrhœa. Cholera (other than
Asiatic), Gastro-Enteritis, Gastro-Intestinal Catarrh, Muco Enteritis, Colitis, etc. Deaths from
Diarrhoea secondary to some other well-defined disease are included under the latter.
(h) Under this heading are included deaths from Delirium Tremens, acute and chronic alcoholism, etc.,
but not those certified as due to organic disease attributed to slcoholism. The number of the latter
may with advantage be stated separately, though this statement cannot be included in Table III.
(i) Under "Puerperal Fever" are included deaths under such headings as Pyæmia, Septicæmia.
Sapræmia, Pelvic Peritonitis, Peri-and Endo-Metritis occurring in the Puerperium.
(j) Under this heading are included also deaths from Atrophy and Marasmus of Infants, and want of
Breast-Milk, but not from Atelectasis.