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grants in aid for regular class instruction to schools for mothers which
conform to regulations laid down by the Board.
Deaths.
2,208 deaths were registered in the City in the 53 weeks ending the
3rd January, 1914. After deducting 1,048 deaths of non-citizens in
public institutions in the City, and adding those of 870 citizens who died
in other districts, the corrected total is 2,030, and is equivalent to
an annual rate of 127 per 1,000 persons. The average death-rate for
the five years 1903-7 was 13.2, and for the five years 1908-12, 12.2
per 1,000.
The London death-rate for 1913 was 14.2, the average for the
previous five years being 14.7. For England and Wales the rate
was 13.4. .
Tables appended to this part of the Report show the vital statistics
of the Citv and five groups of districts from 1892 to 1913.

Distribution according to Wards and the locality at time of death
are shown in Table III.
There were 10 deaths in hotels of persons who came from abroad
whose deaths have to be included in Westminster. Before 1911 such
deaths would have been excluded.
Cause of Death at all Ages.—These are set forth in Table I, and
also their distribution in the various Wards of the City.
Deaths in 1913 exceeded those recorded in 1912, from influenza
(by 21), diseases of the lungs (by 38), pulmonary tuberculosis (by 15),
cancer (by 12), diarrhoea (by 11), accidents or negligence (by 8), old age
(by 23), prematurity (by 9), developmental causes (by 14); on the other
hand, deaths from the following causes were fewer in 1913, measles
(by 12), whooping-cough (by 10), erysipelas, puerperal fever and other
septic causes (by 14), diabetes (by 8), diseases of the nervous system
(by 17).