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AGE-GROUP DEATH-RATES.
Tables 15 and 15a give the death-rates which
prevailed last year among males and females in the six
age-groups used in these reports, the rates being
contrasted with those prevailing during each of the
preceding five years, and the mean rate for the
quinquennial period. In Table 16 the deaths at
ages under one year have been tabulated in four
age-groups, and those at ages between one and five
years, for each year of life. Inasmuch as estimates
of persons living at ages under one year are untrustworthy,
more importance is to be attached to the
infantile mortality rates shown in Table 16 than to
those in Tables 15 and 15a.*
Among males the increase in the death-rate
during the year was chiefly due to the heavier mortality
in North Paddington, all rates except that of the
group "5—15" being above the average. (See
Table 15). In South Paddington the rate at ages
under one year alone showed an increase over the
mean. The reduction in the rate prevailing in this
Sub-district at ages " 15—25," from 3.57 to 1.49,
was very satisfactory. In the whole Parish the bulk
"bf the increased mortality fell on the ages " under
one" and "1—5," the other increases being in each
case trifling. As will appear later on, these increases
were due largely to the prevalence of measles and
diarrhoea.
* See also under " Mortality of Infants under one year" page 77 et seq.