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BIRTHS—BIRTH-RATE.
During the year 463 births were registered, an increase of
only 22 on the preceding year, in spite of an increase in the
population of 3,400. This gives a birth-rate of 20.6 per 1,000 of
the population, a decrease of 2.8 per 1,000 on the preceding year.
The average rate for the 10 years 1895 to 1904 was 24.3.
The birth-rate of England and Wales in 1905 was 27.2, which
was lower than the rate in any other year on record, and compared
with the average in the previous 10 years shows a decrease
of 1.8 per 1,000.
MORTALITY.
General Mortality and Death-rate.—The number
of deaths which occurred in the District during the past year,
including the deaths of 29 " residents" who died outside the
District (15 in Edmonton Union), and excluding the deaths of
" non-residents" who died in the District (13 in the Metropolitan
Asylums Board Hospital at Winchmore Hill), was 178.
The crude death-rate was therefore 7.9 per 1,000 of the population.
In order to obtain the corrected death-rate, for the
purposes of accurately comparing the death-rate with that of other
Districts and so on, it is necessary, in addition to the above corrections,
to take into consideration the age and sex distribution
of the population.
The " factor for correction'' for this District, which has
hitherto not been available, is now known to be 1.045. The corrected
rate is obtained by multiplying the crude or recorded
death-rate by this factor.
The corrected death-rate, therefore, was 8.2, which is a decrease
of 1.2 per 1,000 on the rate of the preceding year, and the lowest
rate on record for this District.
The average recorded rate for the 10 years 1895 to 1904 was
10.4.
The death-rates of the separate localities were as follows:—
Southgate, 7.4 ; New Southgate, 11.3 ; Winchmore Hill, 7.3 ; and
Palmers Green and Bowes, 6.8. As was the case last year, it will
be seen that there is a considerable difference in the death-rate of
New Southgate as compared with the other three localities. The
higher rate of this locality is, I think, accounted for by the fact
that New Southgate is on the whole the poorest and most thickly
populated part of the District. This is also borne out by the fact
that there were again exactly double the number of deaths from
Phthsis and other Tubercular diseases in New Southgate than
there were in the whole of the rest of the District ; and again
is reflected in the fact that there were more deaths from Infantile
Diarrhoea in New Southgate than in the three other localities
together. The poorer and more thickly populated a district is,
the more prevalent are the deaths from these diseases.