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Report of the Medical Officer of Health.
Table XV. is the general mortality Table for the whole district,
corrected for internal and external Institutions, and also includes
all deaths occurring in other places in London, and in England
and Wales for the year.
Compared with 1911 there has been a very large decrease in
the number of deaths from Measles, Diarrhoea, and Enteritis, and
this decrease is the chief cause of the low death-rate for the year.
From Pulmonary Tuberculosis and Cancer there has been a slight
increase, and this is also the case as regards Old Age and Bronchitis.
The deaths from Suicide have increased from 21 in 1911 to
43 in 1912, or more than double, an increase which is difficult to
account for.
The four Tables which follow are inserted by request of the
Local Government Board.
Table I. is arranged to show the gross births and deaths in
the district, and the births and deaths belonging to it with the
corresponding rates.
The rates in column 7 are calculated 011 the gross population
and the rates in five and 13 on the nett population, i.e., the population
obtained by deducting from the estimated gross population
the average number of inmates not belonging to the district in
Public Institutions.
The population given in column two of this Table is the population
after the above correction has been made.
Table II. shows the number of cases of Infectious Diseases
notified during the year at all ages and at certain age periods in
the Borough and in the separate sub-districts, ?nd also shows the
number of cases removed to hospital from the whole Borough.
Table III. is the general mortality Table for the whole Borough,
showing the number of deaths at all ages, and at certain ages,
arranged as to cause of death. It also shows the number of deaths
in Public Institutions and other places in the district, both of
residents and non-residents.
Table IV. shows in detail the deaths of infants under one
year of age from certain diseases, arranged in weekly age periods,
the first four weeks, from one to three months, and for three monthly
periods up to one year.