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different age periods. Table II is supplementary to Table I, and
sets forth the deaths in each Division of the Borough during each
of the four quarters of the year.
Comparing these tables with the corresponding tables of the
preceding year, the following facts are noteworthy:—A considerable
increase in the deaths from Measles, Whooping Cough, and Zymotic
or Summer Diarrhoea.
It will be noted (Table II) that the mortality of the Southern
Division exceeds that of the Northern (after due allowance is made
for the different figures of the population in each Division), mainly in
respect to the deaths from Tuberculosis, Measles, Whooping Cough,
Diarrhceal Diseases, Premature Birth, Accidents .and Lung Diseases.
The Cancer death-rate is, however, disproportionately high in
the Northern Division.