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MORTALITY.
General Mortality and Death-rate—The number of
deaths which occurred in the district during the last year
was 234. To these must be added the deaths of 47 "residents
" who died outside the district—14 in Edmonton Union,
8 in the County Asylum, Napsbury, 5 in the Great Northern
Hospital, 5 in the Enfield Isolation Hospital, 2 in the
Passmore Edwards Hospital, Wood Green, and the remainder
in sundry other hospitals and institutions. The deaths of
8 "non-residents" who died in the District (in the Metropolitan
Asylums Board Hospital, at Winchmore Hill) must be
subtracted.
The nett total of deaths belonging to the District was
276.
The crude or recorded death-rate was therefore 10'8 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 is 1.045.
The corrected rate is obtained by multiplying the crude or
recorded death-rate by this factor.
The corrected death-rate was 11.2, an increase of 3.0 per
1,000 on the rate of the preceding year (the lowest rate on
record for this District), and .9 above the average corrected
rate for the 10 years 1896 to 1905.
The increase in the death-rate was due chiefly to two
causes; firstly, to the number of deaths from infantile
diarrhœa, which was about treble the average number, due to
the excessively hot and dry summer and autumn ; and,
secondly, to the serious outbreak of typhoid fever in New
Southgate, which resulted in 9 deaths.
It was also in part due to a somewhat increased number
of deaths from general diseases throughout the year as compared
with the previous year, for which there is nothing
special to account for.
As compared with the previous year, the most noticeable
increases, apart from Diarrhoea and Typhoid Fever, were
recorded from the following causes:—Cancer, which was the
cause of 9.7 per cent. of the total number of deaths, as against
6.7 per cent.; Heart Diseases, 9.7 per cent. as against 8'9
per cent.; Alcoholism, 3.6 per cent. as against l.l per cent.;
and Premature Birth, 4.3 per cent. as against 3.3 per cent.