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*Three years - 1888. 1889 and 1890.
This table shows that the diminished death-rate affected
each part of the Borough, hut Woolwich parish least, and
that there was an increase in London. The marked fall in the
death rate though no doubt largely attributable to the satisfactory
sanitary and industrial conditions, absence of poverty
and diminished drinking, must not be put down entirely to these
causes. It is partially due to the influx of a young adult
population with a low mortality.
14. The following table gives the numbers dying at various
ages in the past twelve years from all causes, and the deaths
at all ages from certain diseases not hereafter referred to:-