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For the four previous years, 1901.04, the comparative mortality
figures were for the County 1,065, 1,100, 1,032, and 1042, and for the
City 1,100, 1,082, 1,025, and 940.
Table II., in the form required by the Local Government Board,
shows the vital statistics of the City and five groups of districts from
1891 to 1905. I have made out this table in such a way as to maintain
as far as possible, consequent on alteration of areas, a comparison of
statistics for the old divisions of the City, and in Table III. I have
calculated out the rates therefrom.
Table IV. shows where citizens were at the time of their death,
distributed according to their respective Wards. The number of public
institution deaths in London was 38 per cent. of the total, in the
City 46 per cent. Both these rates, as well as that for the country
generally, are above the average.
Quarterly Rates.—These are shown in Table VII. for the City and
its several Wards, the Comity of London, England and Wales, and the
United Kingdom.
Deaths of Males and Females are also shown in Table VII. for the
same areas.
Deaths under one year of age.—In Table V. the rate at which infants
died, calculated in relation to the number of corrected births, is set out
for the City and its Wards. In Tables II. and III. the rates are
calculated on the uncorrected births, viz., only those registered in the
City, for the City and its old divisions, as formerly allowance was not
made for births taking place outside the area of the division. (See
comparison of corrected and uncorrected rates above, page 14.)
The uncorrected rate for the City was 111 deaths per 1,000 births,
as compared with 148, the average of the previous ten years. The
corrected rate was 105. The London rate for 1905 was 129, the
average being 153. The infantile death.rate in England and Wales was
128, being 18 per 1,000 below that in 1904, and is lower than the rate in
any other year on record. A new table (X.) required by the Local
Government Board (p. 30) shows in detail the ages and causes of death.
Inquiries have been made into the circumstances of many of
these infantile deaths, and in a good number of cases improper feeding
has contributed largely to the death.rate. As nearly all the deaths