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DEATHS.
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1,099 deaths of Leyton residents were registered during the
year—553 males and 546 females.
To these must be added 147 males and 168 females, being
deaths (transferable) received from the Registrar-General.
The deaths of members of the armed forces are not included
in the above figures, or in the mortality tables, but as there was
only 1 of these, its inclusion in the tables would have had an
almost inappreciable effect on the rates.
It must be understood then that the civil population has
been reduced to 112,452 by the loss of the healthy young men, and
the mortality rates are consequently raised.
The death-rate for 1917 was 12.6 per 1,000 of the population.
ZYMOTIC DEATH-RATE.
The deaths which occurred during the year from the seven
principal Zymotic diseases were as follows:—Measles, 25;
Scarlet Fever, 2; Diphtheria, 14; Whooping Cough, 13; Enteric
Fever, 5; Diarrhoea and Enteritis, 21.
The Zymotic death-rate for 1917 was .71 per 1,000 of the
population.
INFANTILE DEATH-RATE.
The infantile mortality rate, i.e., the number of deaths of
children under one year of age per 1,000 births, was 85.8, there
being 172 deaths.
NOTIFICATION OF BIRTHS (EXTENSION) ACT, 1915.
This Act took effect on September 1st, 1915. Under its terms
1,621 notifications of births have been received during the year
1917—748 from medical practitioners, 828 from midwives, and 58
from relatives.