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hardly likely to be solved by any scheme short of a national one
ensuring all children regular medical supervision from birth to school
age.
A second Inspection Centre is to be opened in Roehampton Street,
Vauxhall Bridge Koad, to serve the Pinilico and St. John's district.
Deaths.
2,113 deaths were registered in the City in the 52 weeks ending the
28th December, 1912. After deducting 982 deaths of non-citizens in
public institutions in the City, and adding those of 853 citizens who died
in other districts, the corrected total is 1,984, and is equivalent to
an annual rate of 12.5 per 1,000 persons, the same as in 1911. The
average death-rate for the five years 1902-6 was 13.8, and for the five
years 1907-11, 12.7 per 1,000, and for the ten years was 13.3.
The London death-rate for 1912 was 13.6, the average for the
previous five years being 14.7.
Tables appended to this part of the Iteport show the vital statistics
of the City and five groups of districts from 1892 to 1912.

The Ward rates are shown in Table V.
Cause of death at all Ages.—These are set forth in Table II, and
also their distribution in the various Wards of the City.
Deaths in 1912 exceeded those recorded in 1911 from diseases of
blood vessels (by 26), of the lungs (by 21), from measles (by 12),
erysipelas (by 7), other septic diseases (by 10), diabetes (by 7), cancer
(by 11), locomotor ataxia and general paralysis of the insane (by 13);
on the other hand, deaths from the following causes were fewer in 1912,
whooping-cough (by 12), diarrhoea and enteritis (by 37), rheumatic
fever (by 5), tuberculosis (by 16), premature birth and developmental
causes (by 20), old age (by 32), meningitis (by 9), and kidney diseases
(by 23).