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In the following table, the number of deaths occurring each year since 1900 is
shewn, as well as the distribution of deaths throughout the Borough. So far as the
total number and the rates per 1,000 for the Borough are concerned, a considerable
improvement is to be noted. The difference between 1900 and 1912 is 126, nearly 1 per
1,000, and though this is to some extent due to the clearing away of inferior property
and the removal of a certain number of the poorer inhabitants, the credit for some of
't must be given to the work of prevention carried out by the Council and others.
So far as the various districts in relation to deaths are concerned, the marked
increase which was noted in All Souls, in 1911, proved, as was expected, accidental
and temporary, and it is hoped that the fall commenced in 1910 will continue. In
Christ Church there seems to be little tendency to reduction in the average number
of deaths. Again, as in previous years, it heads the list, giving 50 per cent, more
deaths than any other district. With regard to it, it is to be noted, of course, that it
is the most thickly populated district, and one in which the majority of the inhabitants
are of the class unfortunately most liable to infection, and least capable of withstanding
the ravages of the disease.

The distribution of the 149 deaths was as follows In Poor Law institutions,
63; general and other hospitals, 21 ; at home, 65.
That the majority of the deaths take place at the middle periods of life and that
more males than females die of consumption has been pointed out in previous reports.