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yearly corrected averages of 2070.2, 1503.5 and 958.6 for the decennia
1891-1900 (Parish), 1901-1910 (Borough), and 1911-20 (Borough)
respectively and a yearly corrected average of 702.6 for the previous
quinquennium 1920-24 (Borough). These figures, like the figures for
the deaths of infants under 1 year of age, also represent an enormous
saving in young life (under 5 years of age).
4.—Mortality (all ages).
The different rates of mortality from different diseases and groups
of diseases during 1924 and 1925 are given in terms of the total deaths
(corrected) in Table E, which gives also the corrected deaths from the
chief infantile diseases, expressed in terms of the corrected infantile
population (i.e, the number of births registered as corrected by the
Registrar- General).
5.—Zymotic Death-Rates.
The zymotic death rate is made up of the total deaths from the
seven principal zymotic diseases, viz.: small-pox, measles, scarlet
fever, diphtheria (including membranous croup), whooping cough,
"fever" (including typhus, typhoid or paratyphoid or enteric and
simple continued or ill-defined) and diarrhœa.
The total number of deaths registered within the Borough from
these diseases is 251—97 strangers belonging to other districts and 99
parishioners who died within the Borough; whilst, in addition, 55
parishioners died from these diseases outside the Borough. Subtracting
the strangers and adding the parishioners who died outside the Borough,
there is a corrected total of 154, giving a zymotic death-rate (corrected)
of 0.5 per 1,000 inhabitants. As in the case of general death-rates,
the zymotic death-rates vary in the inner and outer districts, viz., 0.8
as compared with 0.3 per 1,000 population (vide Table D).
Taking the seven principal zymotic diseases separately, the
corrected death-rates are:—Small-pox 0.00, measles, 0.02, whooping
cough 0.15, scarlet fever 0.03, diphtheria 0.17, "fever" 0.01, and
diarrhoea 0.10, per 1,000 of the population.
Tuberculosis Death Ratbs.
The tuberculosis corrected death-rate for 1925 is 1.07 i.e., 335
deaths from all forms of tuberculosis per 1,000 population, and the
consumption (phthisis) death-rate, 0.87, i.e., 273 deaths from pulmonary
tuberculosis or consumption (phthisis) per 1,000 population.