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The corrected death-rate was 8.3 per 1,000, the same as the
rate of the preceding year, and 0.4 below the average rate for the
previous ten years.
As compared with the previous year, the most noticeable
feature was the 5 deaths from Whooping Cough, the result of an
epidemic of this disease during the early part of the year.
The death-rate for England and Wales was 13.7 per 1,000,
which was 0.4 above the rate in 1912. Compared with the
average rate of the previous 10 years, the death-rate in 1913
showed a decrease of T2 per 1,000.
Infantile Mortality.—There were 43 deaths of infants
under 1 year of age, which gives an infantile death-rate of 61
per 1,000 births registered, as against 67 in the preceding year,
89 in 1911, and 50 in 1910. The average rate for the
10 years 1903-1912 was 71.
In Table V. are set forth the causes of deaths of infants
under one year of age, in weeks and months.
The infantile death-rate of North Southgate was 91, and
that of South Southgate 51.
The infantile death-rate in England and Wales was 109
which is 14 per 1,000 above the rate in 1912.
Senile Mortality.—Among persons of 70 years of age and
over, 57 deaths occurred, and, of these, 19 were 80 years of age
and over. This is a proportion of 18 per cent. of the total
number of deaths at all ages, as against 25 per cent. in the
preceding year.
The percentage of deaths of persons of 70 years of age and
over in North Southgate was 22, and in South Southgate 16.