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It is true that, as several days usually elapse before information with regard to
deaths is received, there may be delay in taking these steps. That a very small
amount of good has been done will be sufficient to justify the taking of the action,
and it is hoped that this amount will be done.
If further justification is required it is to be found in the following facts: that
over 3 per 1000 of the population died of the respiratory diseases in 1913; that there
were 127 deaths (1.2 per 1000 of the population) from pneumonia, 28 of them in
children under 2 years of age and 51 in adults between the ages of 25 and 65, and
that on an average 120 persons die in the Borough from this cause each year.
CANCER OR MALIGNANT DISEASE.
The number of deaths due to cancer was 156 and the death rate 1.36 per 1000
of the population. In 1912 the total was somewhat lower-137; the figure for 1913
is, however, much nearer the average, that for the previous year being exceptionally
low.
In the report for 1912 this disease was considered at some length. Since that
report was written nothing has occurred rendering any alteration or addition to what
is written there, necessary. It is not proposed, therefore, to do more now than
submit the usual tables.