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The Registrar General has not yet published his Annual Summary
for 1909. I am therefore unable to say what exact position
will be assigned to Croydon on comparing the death-rate with those
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 8.3; Walthamstow, 9.6; East
Ham, 9.9; King's Norton, 9.9; Leyton, 10.3; and Willesden, 10.4.
INFANTILE MORTALITY is measured by the proportion of
deaths under one year to 1,000 births, and amounted to 79 as compared
with 99 in 1908, 94 in 1907, 125 in 1906, 96 in 1905, and 128
in 1904. During the year 1909 the rate for England and Wales was
109, while in the 76 large towns it ranged from 61 in Hornsey,
72 in King's Norton, 82 in Leyton to 150 in Nottingham, 156 in
Burnley to 159 in Swansea.

*Under "diarrhoeal" disease; 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.