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With the Metropolitan suburbs, which are designated by the
Registrar General the "outer ring." In this area the rate of
mortality was 16.90 per 1000, against 15.03 in this District.
This result is, undoubtedly, so far satisfactory, but it is, nevertheless,
essential to analyse the causes of death in the District;
and the Table I, appended to this Report, affonl.s the means
of comparing the number and cause of deaths in the District,
and the ages at which the deaths occurred, during each of the
past three years, with the per ccntage of deaths caused by each
class of disease, and the per ccntage of deaths occurring in
each of six selected periods of life.
This Table is pregnant with matter demanding most
serious consideration, and shows that there arc still 155 deaths,
or 18.41 per cent. (more than one-sixth) of the whole attributed
to zymotic or preventable diseases ; and of the total
number of children born, 235, or considerablv more than onefourth,
die off within 12 months after birth. Rut although
there have been 155 deaths in all from zymotic diseases, there
have been only 114 deaths from the seven principal zymotic
diseases, viz:—
Small Pox 0
Measles 25
Scarlet Fever 6
Diphtheria
Whooping Cough 25
Fever 15
Diarrhœa 39
114
this number gives a per centage to the total deaths in
the District, comparing favourably with the per centage of
deaths from the same diseases to the total deaths in london,
also in the 18 towns specified by the Registrar General.
The per centage for the District being 13.5
The per centage for London being