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HOUSING.
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Streets" increases year by year, it has been thought unnecessary to include any table of the
numbers of deaths from the various causes. In Table 39 the morbidity and mortality rates
for the past two years are set out in comparison, but those rates require to be received with
some caution for the reason already given. The main cause for the increase in the total
morbidity rate of last year was the prevalence of scarlet fever. The rates from enteric and
puerperal fevers were slightly lower. While the total mortality rates for the two years are
practically equal, those from certain causes, notably scarlet fever, diarrhoeal diseases, phthisis,
and cancer, were considerably higher in 1906 than in 1905.

The total morbidity and mortality rates in the "Registered Streets" were in each year
approximately twice those in the "Rest of the Borough." * The mortality at ages under 10
years were in the "Registered Streets" 34.1. and in the "Rest of the Borough" 17.3.
The statistics for the "Clarendon Street Area" have for several years been taken out
separately. In Table 40 will be found the morbidity rates from the individual notified diseases
As more streets come under registration the difference between the rates for "Registered Streets" and those
for the "Rest of the Borough" tends to become greater. For this reason the slight increase in the ratio for last
year as compared with 1905 is taken to have no special significance.