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This rate was 0.41 below the mean death-rate of 26 years at this time of the
year. The death-rate was, however, lower on four previous occasions, but
these were the exceptional four years, 1907 to 1910, when owing to abnormal
climatic conditions, which caused a reduced infantile mortality, the death-rates
were unusually low.
Fourth Quarter.—In this quarter also the mortality was below the
corrected average, the number of deaths recorded being 1,291, and the deathrate
15.82 per 1,000. On various occasions, however, the death-rates have been
lower, namely in 1894, 1898, 1900, 1903, 1907, 1908, 1909 and 1911. Nevertheless
it was below the mean decennial rate from 1902-1911, during which it
averaged 15.92 per 1,000 of the population.
Particulars as to the mortality at the four seasons of the year are also to
be found in Tables XIX., XXI., XXII., XXIII., and XXV.; as well as in
Table B in the appendix, in addition to which very full details have been given
in the quarterly reports of the Medical Officer of Health.
DEATHS IN REGISTRATION SUB-DISTRICTS.
The number of deaths recorded in the several sub-districts varied from
390 in Tufnell, to 1,083 in Islington South-East, while the death-rates ranged
from 11.56 per 1,000 of the population in Tufnell to 15.68 in Lower Holloway.
Tufnell (Population 33,738).—There were 390 deaths registered in this
sub-district as compared with 442 in the preceding seven years. These deaths
represented the low death-rate of 11.56 per 1,000 of the inhabitants as contrasted
with 13.35, the rate which obtained from 1905 to 1911.
Upper Holloway (Population 37,558).—Here the number of deaths
recorded was 579, as against 549 in the seven years immediately preceding,
while the death-rate was 15.41 per 1,000 in contrast with a mean rate of 15.13
in the years 1905-1911.
Tollington (Population 30,162).—394 deaths were returned, or 29 less
than the average of the seven years preceding, while the death-rate was 13.06
per 1,000, as compared with 13.42.
Lower Holloway (Population 39,082)—The 613 deaths registered
show a decrease of 20 on the average of 633 which occurred in the seven years,
1905-1911; while the death-rate was 15.68 per 1,000, or 0.08, above the mean
rate of these years.