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registered as having actually occurred in the District
was 83, giving a death rate of 6.3 per 1,000. But 13
deaths of residents occurred in certain public institutions,
viz., the Barnet Infirmary, Victoria Cottage Hospital,
and the County Asylum, which must be debited to the
District, raising the total number of deaths to 96, and
giving a corrected death-rate of 7.25 per 1,000. This is,
I believe, the lowest death-rate that has ever been
recorded in the district.
Infant Mortality.—Ratio of deaths under one
year of age per 1,000 births registered.—Under this
heading 12 deaths were registered, the death rate being
44.1 per 1,000. Nearly half those deaths were due to
premature birth and congenital defects. No deaths
were caused by epidemic diarrhoea—a disease prevalent
in hot weather. No doubt because the summer of 1910
was like that of 1909—a decidedly cool one.
Measles.—Only one death was due to this
disease. A number of cases occurred amongst the
children attending the Highstone Infant School towards
the end of the year. The Managers desired to close
the School, and with the approval of the School Medical
Officer this was done for a period of three weeks, from
5th December. With this exception the district was
remarkably free from measles.
Scarlet Fever.—This disease showed a further