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The table makes it clear that, at all the age-groups here capable
of analysis, from infancy upwards, (here is a heavier deathrate,
and no doubt a corresponding heavier disease-rate, in the
selected working-class roads visited during house-to-house inspection
than in the rest of the borough. The differences are to be
noted with singular clearness under nearly everv individual cause
of death sufficiently important to justify tabulation. The only exceptions
in (he above list are in respect of the death-rates from
organic heart disease and from diseases of arteries, in which the
working-class group are either equal to or else show a slight advantage
over the rest of the borough. In regard to cancer, it will be
noted that the excess in the selected working-class roads was due
almost entirely to a marked excess among females rather than
among males. This may mean that there was later recourse to
treatment, or less adequate treatment among the selected workingclass
section than for the rest of the borough ; but it might also
be due to some difference in the age distribution of women in the
two groups—as to which there is unfortunately no information
available.
The excessive death-rate at all ages in the working-class roads
from lung diseases such as bronchitis and pneumonia is specially
to be noted.
The death-rate at ages over 10 from tuberculosis in the selected
roads was more (han double than that for the rest of the borough.