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12
1.1 above the 1910 rate, but 08 below the average rate of the previous
ten years.
Table V shows the vital statistics of the City and five groups of
districts from 1901 to 1911.
The Registrar-General has adopted a new system, whereby deaths
of inhabitants of a sanitary district, occurring anywhere in England
and Wales, are allocated to the proper district. Hitherto, only deaths
in and around London have been so allocated. Deaths of persons whose
usual place of residence was not in England or Wales are to be taken
as deaths belonging to the district in which they die. In both of these
ways the number of deaths allocated to Westminster has been increased,
by 42 under the former and by 21 under the latter rule, equal to nearly
0.4 per 1,000. Deducting this figure in order to compare the 1911
death-rate with previous years, brings the rate down to a little below
the average of the previous five years.
As usual there was a number of deaths of persons in the various
poor law institutions who were homeless or whose home address was
unknown; in 1911 there were 156 such.
The death-rates, according to the old districts of the City, are:—

Cause of death at all Ages.—These are set forth in Table III, and
also their distribution in the various Wards of the City.
Deaths in 1911 exceeded those recorded in 1910 from old age (by
39), cancer (by 30), whooping-cough (by 10), diseases of the digestive
system, including diarrhoea (by 15), diseases of the kidney (by 15),
various forms of tuberculosis (by 7), alcoholism (by 7), meningitis and
convulsions (by 12), accidents caused 7 more deaths, but suicides were
11 less; disease of the heart and blood vessels, developmental affections of
children, erysipelas, diphtheria, and enteric fever were each less; diseases
of the respiratory system accounted for about the same number of
deaths as in 1910, but pneumonias were 64 more, while bronchitis and
other forms of lung disease were 60 less.
Ages at Death.-—Deaths were more at each age period than in 1910,