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This death rate of 10.9 compares very favourably
with 12.5 for 1902 and 13.48 for 1901, the only two years
for which I am able to give returns. It is a source of
great satisfaction to my department to be able to make
such a satisfactory report, and though one must not forget
that it has been a comparatively healthy year everywhere,
yet these low figures are a guarantee that the sanitary
and healthy condition of Penge is being maintained.
The Infantile Mortality also shows an improvement:
117.64 this year, as against 140.75 in 1902 and 131.29 in
1901.
Sixty-nine of the deaths occurred in children under
5 years of age, this being a mortality of 27.4 per cent,
of the total number of deaths registered.
ZYMOTIC DEATH RATE.

This gives a Zymotic death rate of 0.69 per 1,000, but
if the three cases of Influenza are omitted, it only amounts
to 0.56 per 1,000, and in studying the table above it is
satisfactory to note that not a single case of death from
Typhoid is included.