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Vital Statistics.
that of last year, but lower than that of England and Wales as a
whole, 24'4 per 1000, and still lower than that of London 25 per
1000.
Of the births, 29 were illegitimate, forming 4 per cent, of the
total births.
DEATHS.
The uncorrected number of deaths at all ages in the district
was 272, making a crude death-rate of 8.8 per 1000 of the population.
When appropriate corrections are made for excluding and including
certain deaths, the corrected number is 336, i.e., a death-rate of 10.9
per 1000, an increase on that of last year, but still lower than that of
England and Wales, 14.6 per 1000, and still lower than that of
London, 15 per 1000. The low death-rate in a suburban and rapidlygrowing
district like this is probably due in a large measure to the
age and sex constitution of the population. When the completed
census returns are to hand, it will be possible to make corrections
for this, and see how far the low death-rate is due to these factors.
INFANTILE MORTALITY (Table IV.)
The deaths of infants under one year were 70, which gives an
infantile mortality of 95 per 1000 births; of these 70 deaths under
one year, 9 were of illegitimate babies. This means that the
infantile mortality rate among illegitimate babies is 310, as compared
with 86 per 1000 among babies born in wedlock.
CHIEF CAUSES OF DEATH.
The chief causes of death, and the number of deaths from each
disease or groups of diseases are tabulated in Table III. This table
gives the relative incidence of different diseases, and the incidence
of each disease at the different ages,