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account. However, the census about to be made will clear this
up; meanwhile, it is best as a basis for vital statistics to take the
more conservative, figure, so as not to obtain results too flattering
to the district.
The natural increase of the population by excess of births
over deaths was 344 as against 76 and 44 in the two previous
years, and shows a return to the more normal excess of births
over deaths which obtained before the war.
The population, on the basis of the Registrar-General, for
North Southgate was 11,230, and that of South Southgate was
29,320.
BIRTHS- BIRTH kATE.
The nett total of births accredited to this District is 699, an
increase of 239 on the preceding year, and in proportion to the
population approximately the same as in 1914; of these 338
were males and 361 females, and 17 were illegitimate. The
birth-rate was, therefore, 17 per 1,000 of the population, as
against 11.3 in 1919, 10 3 in 1918, and reaches approximately
the pre-war rate of 17.3 in 1914.
The birth-rate for England and Wales was 25.4.
MORTALITY.
General Mortality and Death-rate.—The nett number
of deaths accredited to this District was 355.
As regards the causes of death as compared with the previous
year, the most noticeable feature was the absence of an excessive
number of deaths from Influenza, which obtained in 1919—nine as
against 52. The death-rate was 8.7 per 1,000 of the population,
a decrease of 1.1 on the rate of the previous year.
The average rate for the previous ten years was 8.5.
The death-rate for England and Wales was 12.4.