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Report of the Medical Officer of Health. 25
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 1913 there has been an increase in the number
of deaths from Whooping Cough, Diarrhoea, Cancer and diseases
of the Circulatory organs and Urinary system, and these increases
are the cause of the death-rate for the year having been higher than
in 1913. From Pulmonary Tuberculosis there has been a slight
decrease, and this is also the case as regards Old Age and Premature
Birth.
The deaths from Suicide have decreased from 33 in 1913 to
22 in 1914, but the deaths from accident have increased from 80
in 1913 to 86 in 1914.
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 on the gross population
and the rates in 5 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, and also shows the
number of cases removed to hospital from the whole Borough.