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DEATHS.

The deaths of males were 128 in excess of those of females, and the death-rate
amongst males was approximately 28.5 per cent. higher than amongst females.
The general death-rate for the Borough was 13.3 per 1,000 population. The
causes of death and the death-rates for the Borough and its eight wards, together
with other particulars respecting the mortality amongst the inhabitants during
the year, are given in Tables I., III., IV., V. and VI. (Appendix).
The death-rate averaged above the mean during the first three months of the
year and again during the last three months. The rate was lowest during the
month of August, when it averaged less than 9 per 1,000. The highest point touched
was during the second and the last weeks of December, when the rates were 22.4 per
1,000 population. The mortality from diarrhoea had no appreciable effect upon the
death-rate, but measles and diseases of the respiratory organs were largely contributory
to the elevation noticeable during the last two months of the year.
The deaths amongst infants under one year numbered 233, of which 116 were
of males. They amounted to 16.3 per cent. of the deaths from all causes. The
mortality amongst infants under one year was at the rate of 88 per 1,000 births
registered during the year, as compared with 87 in 1924, 82 in 1923, 102 in 1922,
114 in 1921 and 91 in 1920. The infantile mortality amongst males was 89 as compared
with 88 amongst females. This slight difference is worthy of note as for
years past in Shoreditch the mortality amongst male infants under one year has
always materially exceeded that of females. The chief causes of death amongst
infants under a year old were: prematurity, atrophy debility and marasmus,
malformations, pneumonia, bronchitis, diarrhcea and enteritis, whooping cough and
measles.
In Table IV. (Appendix) the causes of death amongst infants under one year
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