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The death-rates of the seVei'al sub-districts, Uncorrected
for institutions, were all somewhat higher than
those of the year preceding. But apart from the
disparity which they are invariably found to exhibit as
the result of difference of social position and density of
population, the relative difference observable between
them has not been for a considerable period so great as
theretofore; and it is worthy of remark that, on the
occurrence of an increase in the death-rate of the district,
as in that of last year compared with the two years
preceding, the death-rates of the densely peopled
sub-districts have not been raised to the same relative
extent as in those sparsely populated; from which
circumstance it may be reasonably inferred that the effects
of sanitation have become manifest in those parts of the
district where the greatest necessity has existed for
sanitary administration, and where such a result was
least likely to be realized.
Mortality and its Causes.—The statistics contained
in Tables 2 and 3 in the Appendix afford ample means
for reviewing the incidence of disease and the causation
of mortality throughout the district during the past year.
The number and nature of the diseases and other causes
of death (arranged in accordance with the classification
of the Registrar-General) with the sex, age, and social
position of the deceased and the relative numbers that
occurred from each class of disease in the several
sub-districts are set forth in Table 2; and in Table 3 the
classified causes of death are enumerated and compared
with those of the preceding ten years.
On comparing the relative amount of fatality that
resulted from the several classes of disease, the Zymotic
class is seen, as usual, to have formed the largest
proportion, amounting to 17.1 per cent, of all deaths, and