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8
DEATHS.
The number of deaths registered in the District for
the year is 844. The deaths occurring among the
inmates of the Strand Union and Schools (47), and
those of non-residents of Edmonton dying in Edmonton
Workhouse (147), do not properly enter into our
statistics, and have therefore been excluded. The
deaths among Edmonton residents dying in Edmonton
Workhouse (54), are, however, included. To these
must be added 74 deaths of Edmonton residents, who
died in various institutions outside the district, giving
a net total of 724 deaths. The death rate is therefore
137 per 1,000. The death rate for England and
Wales is 15-4 per 1,000.
The age, distribution, and causes of death are set
out on Table IV., pp. 34 & 35.
On p. 14 will be found a table showing the death
rates of the district for the last 11 years, in which it
will be seen that the figure for the present year is the
lowest recorded. Edmonton, indeed, has participated
fully in that general drop in the country's death-rate,
which has been the chief statistical feature of the year.
After allowing for the reduction which is annually
looked for as the result of the continued efforts of
sanitary authorities in the improvement of the people's
health, there remains a large margin of the decrease
in this year's death-rate, both in Edmonton and elsewhere,
that must be accounted for in other ways. It
is the generally accepted view that the unprecedented