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The Registrar General has not yet published his Annual Summary
for 1905. I am therefore unable to say what exact position
will be assigned to Croydon in comparing the death-rate with that
of the other 76 towns, but from an examination of the four quarterly
reports, it would seem that Croydon maintains its position at the
head of what were the 33 great towns. The death-rate, however,
was considerably lower in many of the other 76 towns. For instance
Hornsey had a recorded death-rate of 7.6, King's Norton 9.l,
Handsworth 10.1, Leyton 10.3, Walthamstow 1o.8, Willesden 11.6,
and East Ham 117.
INFANTILE MORTALITY is measured by the proportion of
deaths under one year to 3,000 births, and amounted to 96 as compared
with 128 in 1904, 104 in 1903, 133 in 1902, and 140 in 1901.
This is the lowest infantile mortality rate in Croydon of which we
have any record. During the year 1905 the rate for England and
Wales was 128, while in the 76 large towns it ranged from 66 in
Hornsey, 80 in Handsworth, 83 in Bournemouth, 87 Burton-on-Trent,
89 in King's Norton, 94 in Leyton, to 153 in West Ham, 155 in
Nottingham, 174 Grimsby, 193 in Merthyr Tydfil, 195 in Hanley,
to 200 in Rhondda.

*Under "diarrhoeal" diseases are included deaths from 'diarrhoea," from
epidemic and zymotic enteritis, and from enteritis, that is, from the causes classified
in schedules 10, 11, and 107 of Table IV.