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sub-districts and of the cases removed to the
Isolation Hospital. This is supplemented by two
other Tables bearing on Scarlet-fever, to be found in
the remarks on that disease, and which show a
comparison between this and former years and also
the special incidence of the disease in the different
parishes and at different months; by these means a
comparative record is kept of what has happened in
the past.
Table IV.—Differentiates or classifies the
causes of death under their various headings, at
different age groups, and in localities at all ages.
Table Y.—Has to do with Infantile Mortality,
and is referred to further on.
Vital Statistics.
Death Rate.—The deaths of residents registered
as having occurred within the District during
the past year were 135, giving the extremely low
rate of 7.7 on the estimated population of 17,367.
In former years this used to be the mode of arriving
at it, but the "corrected" death rate is that obtained
by including deaths from outside as already explained
or, in other words, the inclusion of those of would-be
residents who have been removed to institutions for
treatment elsewhere; amended in this way the nett
number of deaths is 153, giving a rate of 8.8 per
annum per thousand of the population. This compares
with 8.4 of the year before, both very low
rates (see column 13, Table I.). Some factors—other
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