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The death-rate from these diseases in the County of London
was 1.93; the mean rate in the 10 years, 1896-1905, being
2.32 per 1,000. In the Metropolitan Borough the death-rates
from these infectious diseases ranged from 0.57 in Hampstead,
0.84 in Westminster, and 1.08 in the City of London,
to 2.95 in Poplar, 3.15 in Shoreditch, and 3.59 in Finsbury.
In Table X. will be found the number of deaths from
each of the principal infectious diseases in 1906 and in the
ten preceding years, and in Table XL the death-rate per 1,000
of the population of each ward in 1906.
In these tables, as in former years, the deaths ascribed to
Gastro-enteritis, Gastritis, Gastro-enteric Catarrh, etc.,
among children under one year are not included under
Diarrhœa as in Table IV.