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After the suitable adjustments rendered necessary by the foregoing
tables have been made, the net deaths of the Borough numbered
4,435 (2,285 males and 2,150 females), being 71 more than the
previous year and 297 below the average for the last ten years. This
makes an annual death.rate for the year of 14.2 per 1,000, or 2.4
below the average death.rate during the ten years 1899.1908, which
was 16.6 per 1,000.
Corrected for age and sex distribution, the annual death.rate
becomes 15.1 per 1,000, the factor for correction being 1.0693.
Both the foregoing birth.rate and death.rate, as well as the
subsequent rates, have been calculated from a population estimated at
the middle of the year to be 311,629, in obtaining which estimate
regard has been had, firstly, to the natural increase of population
(births over deaths), which in the aggregate amounted to 4,295 ; and,
secondly, to the number of houses finally passed by the Borough
Engineer for occupation during the previous twelve months.

WARD MORTALITY STATISTICS.
The same method has been adopted in estimating the populations
of the various Wards of the Borough, and in considering the following
table in which the deaths are distributed to the several wards,
it must be distinctly borne in mind that such estimates can be, at best,