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DEATHS.
1,447 deaths of Leyton residents were registered during the
year—685 males and 762 females.
To these must be added 163 males and 113 females, being
deaths (transferable) received from the Registrar-General.
The deaths of members of the armed forces are not included
in the above figures, or in the mortality tables.
It must be understood then that the civil population has
been reduced to 112,452 by the loss of the healthy young men, and
the mortality rates are consequently raised.
The death-rate for 1918 was 15.3 per 1,000 of the population.
ZYMOTIC DEATH-RATE.
The deaths which occurred during the year from the seven
principal Zymotic diseases were as follows.—Measles, 21;
Scarlet Fever, 0; Diphtheria, 17; Whooping Cough, 14; Enteric
Fever, 0; Diarrhoea and Enteritis, 21.
The Zymotic death-rate for 1918 was .65 per 1,000 of the
population.
INFANTILE DEATH-RATE.
The infantile mortality rate, i.e., the number of deaths or
children under one year of age per 1,000 births, was 89.9, there
being 161 deaths.
NOTIFICATION OF BIRTHS (EXTENSION) ACT, 1915.
This Act took effect on September 1st, 1915. Under its terms
1,548 births were notified during the year 1918—743 from medical
practitioners, 768 from midwives, and 57 from relatives.
The Health Visitors visited 1,568 newly-born infants and
paid 4,210 re-visits.