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which I cannot determine at present. There is
also another source of falacy to which I shall refer
before long.
Table IX exhibits in detail the returns of
births and deaths for the year, arranged both
according to districts, and according to seasons.
It gives also the ages at death and the more important
causes of death.
I have very little to observe in relation to this
Table, excepting that it appears by comparing it
with Tables XI and XII (which show the mortality
due to the more important zymotic diseases for
series of years) that all the zymotic diseases exhibit
considerable diminution as compared with the
previous year, which was itself, on the whole, a
particularly healthy year.
I now come to that source of falacy to which
I just now adverted. It has long been acknowledged
that the mortality due to many of the districts of
London, probably to all of them, is larger than
appears from the registration returns; owing to
the fact that an unascertained number of the population
die in hospitals and beyond the limits of the
districts to which they belong. The establishment