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it a resident of Leyton were taken to a London Hospital and died
there, the death would be registered in the registration area in
which the Hospital is situated, and I might never hear of the
death. But now all such "transferable" deaths are sent to the
County Medical Officer of Health, who transmits to me such as
are referable to Leyton. I should receive quarterly a list of these
"transferred deaths," but owing to the new machinery involved
not being as yet fully developed there is considerable delay in
receiving these returns: e.g., those for the last quarter of the year
have not yet come to hand.
I am therefore only able to add to the deaths received from
the local registrars the transferable deaths for the first three
quarters of the year.
These, however, amount to 168, and consequently raise our
death-rate from 10.4 to 11.8 per 1,000 of the population.
The total number of deaths belonging to the District of which
I have received particulars is 1,473.
Of this number 744 were those of males and 728 females.
One body—that of a newly-born infant—was so mutilated as to
render the sex unascertainable.
Our death-rate for 1911, as above stated, is 11.8. In 1910
it was 9; in 1909, 9.96; nd in 1908 and 1907, 9.8 and 10.6
respectively.
The death-rate for England and Wales in 1911 was 14.6;
for the 77 Great Towns, 15.5; and for London, 15.0.