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MORTALITY.
General Mortality and Death Rate.—The number of deaths
registered in the District during the past year (excluding two which
occurred at the Metropolitan Asylums Board Hospital, at Winchmore
Hill, and four of persons non-resident in the District) was 147. This
was a decrease of 35 on that of the preceding year and of 4 on the
average of the previous 10 years. The death-rate was therefore 9.8 per
1.000 of the population. This is the lowest death-rate on record for this
District excepting that in 1896, which was 9.3. The average rate for
the previous 10 years was 12.5.
The death-rate for England and Wales last year was 18.3 and for
the previous 10 years 18.4.
The death-rate for each of the four localities was as follows :—
Southgate 9.3, New Southgate 12.9, Winchmore Hill 10.3, and Palmers
Green and Bowes 7.4.
It is satisfactory to note that the death-rate of Southgate was
materially less than that of the preceding year, when it was 15.4, which
somewhat high rate was due chiefly to the prevalence of diarrhoea and
to the epidemic of diphtheria during that year.
It is also worthy of note that in Palmers Green and Bowes, the
newest part of the District, the death-rate was again the lowest of the
four localities. This very marked difference cannot I think but be due
to a great extent to the necessarily better sanitary conditions that obtain
in this locality.
Infantile Mortality.—There were 38 deaths registered of infants
under one year of age, giving an infantile death rate of 118 per 1,000
births registered, as against 140 in the preceding year, 119 in 1898, and
147 in 1897. The average rate for the 10 years 1890-1899 was 119.
The infantile death-rate for England and "Wales last year was 151.
These deaths under one year of age form 26.2 per cent of the total
deaths at all ages, whereas in the preceding year the proportion was 28
per cent, in 1898 24.6 per cent, and in 1897 30.3.
3 per cent.
Senile Mortality. Among persons of 70 years of age and over, 38
deaths occurred, and of these 18 were of persons of 80 years of age and
over. This is a proportion of 26.2 per cent of the total deaths at all ages
—a high rate of senile mortality and one which speaks well for the
general healthiness of the District.
Zymotic Mortality.—This includes the deaths from the seven,
principal Zymotic diseases, viz: Small Pox, Scarlet Fever, Diphtheria
Typhoid Fever, Measles, Whooping Cough and Diarihœa. This rate
affords useful evidence as to the general healthiness of the District and
as to the efficiency of its sanitary administration.