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The subjoined statement, being a summary of the Table in Appendix I., page 105 shows the
number of deaths from diseases comprised in the " New List of Causes of Death," as used in the
Annual Reports of the Registrar-General for England and Wales, referred to in the following pages;
to which I have added the deaths from violence, and certain diseases comprised in the old classification
under the heading Ill-defined and Not Specified Causes, e.g., Debility, Atrophy, Inanition,
terms which find no place in the New List.

GENERAL DISEASES.
The Deaths from the "Principal Diseases of the Zymotic Class" (244, 247 and 278 in the
preceding three years respectively) were 180 in 1907, and 110 below the corrected decennial average
(290). These deaths, of which 155 belong to the Town sub-district and 25 to Brompton, were
equivalent to 1.0 per 1,000 persons living (1.18 in the Town sub-district and 0.50 in Brompton)
as compared with 1.55 in 1906 ; the decennial average being 1.60.
The rate in the Metropolis, as a whole, was 1.42 per 1,000 (1.93 in 1906); the decennial
average being 2.22.