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The corrected number is therefore 488, which is equal to an
annual rate of 10.60 per 1,000 of the estimated population.
The average death rate for the previous 10 years was 11.66.
To compare this death rate with that of England and Wales,
allowance must be made for the more favourable age and sex
distribution of the population of Wood Green. This is done by
multiplying the recorded death rate by a "factor for correction" (in
our case 1.09801), a figure obtained by the Medical Officer of Health
for the County by a somewhat elaborate calculation, founded on the
figures of the last Census. The corrected death rate for Wood
Green is 11.63 for the year 1906.
There were 127 deaths of children under 1 year, which
corresponds to a rate of 103 deaths for every 1,000 births.
The average for the previous ten years was 131 deaths to every
1,000 births.
The deaths of children under 5 years was 181, which is equal
to a rate of 3.93 per 1,000 of the general population, against 3'36 and
488 per 1,000 in the two previous years.
There were 43 deaths from various forms of Tubercular Disease,
35 of which were from Phthisis, against 34 and 44 in the two
previous years.
There were 64 deaths from diseases of the Respiratory System,
against 73 and 56 for the two previous years.
ZYMOTIC DISEASES.
The deaths from the seven chief Zymotic diseases of the
Registrar-General (Smallpox, Measles, Scarlet Fever, Diphtheria,
Whooping Cough, Fever, and Diarrhoea) were 81, which corresponds
to an annual rate of 1 76 per 1,000, against 106 per 1,000 in 1905.
No case of Smallpox or of Typhus was notified during the year.
SCARLET FEVER.
224 cases of Scarlet Fever were notified with 7 deaths, against
118 cases with 1 death in 1905.