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with the boy of the same age, may accenuate the special
stresses arising during this age-period from the onset of
puberty. At no other age is the death-rate from pulmonary
tuberculosis higher among females than among
males, though it approaches the same level as the male
death-rate from this disease at ages 15—25 years.
(b) The death-rates from cancer at ages 25—45 and 45—65 are
higher for females than for males.
(c) The death-rates from whooping cough are also higher
among females than among males.
It should also be noted that
(d) although the death-rate from pulmonary tuberculosis
among females at ages 15—25 years is lower than that
among males, there has been a tendency, more marked
among females than among males, for a rise in the deathrate
from this disease at these years. The adverse change
among women, which is not peculiar to Croydon, has
been attributed, among other reasons, to the change from
domestic to industrial work; but the reason is still not
sufficiently clear. With this exception, both sexes have
shared equally in the fall of the general death-rate, and of
the death-rates for the various age-groups and for the
various diseases under consideration.
INFANT MORTALITY.
185 deaths of Croydon Infants under one year of age occurred
in 1925 (Appendix, Table I.), giving an infant mortality (number
of deaths under one year of age per 1,000 births) of 55, compared
with 56 in 1923.
The infant mortality for the five years 1921-25 was:—74, 64,
52, 56, 55.

Infant Mortality among illegitimate children.—The infant
mortality among illegitimate children in 1925 (Appendix, Table I.),