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the twelve tubercular deaths six were due to brain
tuberculosis and three to the abdominal form of the
disease.
DEATHS OF YOUNG CHILDREN.
The deaths of young children aged less than five
years (including infants) numbered 538, and formed
thirty per cent, of the deaths at all ages. This is
equivalent to a rate of 30.6 on the census population of
young children against 40.4 for the previous year. Sir
Arthur Newsholme, the Chief Medical Officer to the Local
Government Board, prefers to calculate the young children's
mortality on the number of births; worked out
this way, our figure is 156.5, as against 164 for the
whole of London.
SENILE MORTALITY.
The deaths of elderly persons (over sixty-five) numbered
427, a proportion of twenty-four per cent, of the
total deaths at all ages. They give a mortality rate of
73.8, calculated on the enumerated population of persons
over 65 years of age.
QUARTERLY AND ANNUAL RETURNS OF DEATH
Tables "I" and "J" are compiled from the quarterly
returns of the Registrar-General, and are subject to correction
on publication of the annual return. Following
these will be found the graphic chart showing the
number of deaths week by week in the Borough, corrected
for institution deaths.