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As has been mentioned, the number of deaths upon which the crude death rate
is calculated was 1,094, and the corresponding figure for 1935 was 1,001. It is
comforting to reflect that a considerable proportion of the increased deaths were
due to causes which are not generally preventable so far as official hygiene is concerned.
Although there was a diminution of 14 deaths from tuberculosis and of 17 from "other
diseases of the digestive system," deaths from the following causes were increased
as shown: measles, + 41; cerebral hæmmorrhage, + 14; heart disease, + 25;
bronchitis, + 15; pneumonia, + 34; diarrhœa, + 20. It must be admitted that
deaths from both measles and diarrhœa and enteritis could be considerably reduced
if every use was made of the available methods of prevention, but the other diseases
noted may be mitigated more by the hygiene of the individual than by public
measures.
The ward death rates given in the table above show no very unusual features.
The death rate for Acton ward has in the past frequently been much below that for
the other wards and this feature is again noted for the year 1936.
The particulars regarding deaths from tuberculosis are given in the section of
this report devoted to that disease.

In the subjoined table are set forth the various institutions outside Shoreditch
with the number of persons belonging to the Borough who died therein during the
year:-