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The slight disparity in the total deaths and death-rates in the Quarterly
Reports and those given here is due to the addition of the " transferable "
deaths forwarded by the Registrar-General, after these reports had been
published.
In the second quarter 1,207 deaths were known, and equalled an annual
death-rate of 14.83 per 1,000, as contrasted with 12.96 in 1912, and a decennial
rate of 13.5. See also the second quarterly report of the Medical Officer of
Health.
In the third quarter, 993 deaths were registered, and were equal to a rate
of 12.20 per 1,000 of the population, as contrasted with a mean decennial rate
for this quarter of the year of 12.75, and with 14.74 in the 27 years 1886-1912.
This quarter, as usual, was the healthiest of the year. It was remarkable for
the large decline in diarrhœal diseases among children, as well as from
miasmatic diseases.
In the fourth quarter, 1,333 deaths were entered in the registers, representing
an annual death-rate of 15.20 per 1,000 inhabitants. This rate was
slightly below that of the decennium 1903-1912, when it was 15.75, and with
the mean rate of 17.05 in the preceding 27 years. Full particulars are given
in the Medical Officer of Health's fourth quarterly report.

DEATHS IN THE REGISTRATION SUB-DISTRICTS.
The death-rates in the sub-registration districts varied,, as might be
expected, according to the status in life of their inhabitants. Thus in the
residential district of Highbury the death-rate was only 13-89, whereas in
the working class district of Barnsbury it was 16-88 per 1,000.
Tufnell.—(Estimated population, 33,902.) 494 deaths were registered,
as contrasted with 390 in the preceding year, and with an average of 429 in
the septennial period 1906-1912; and the death-rate was 14.30, as compared
respectively with 11.56 and 12.90 in the years mentioned.