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NOTES ON TABLES 3 AND 4.
1. Medical Officers of Health of "Combined Districts" must make a
separate Return for the District of each District Council.
2. Medical Officers of Health acting for a portion only of the District of a
District Council should write, in the heading of the Table, the designation
of the Division for which they act.
3. The words " Urban " " Rural, " or " Metropolitan" must be inserted in
the appropriate space in the heading, according as the District is Urban
or Rural, or is within the Metropolitan Area.
4. The " Localities " adopted for the purpose of these statistics should
be areas of known population; such as parishes, groups of parishes,
townships, or wards. ,
As stated at the head of the first column in eacli Table, Public
Institutions should be regarded as separate localities, and the deaths
in them should be separately recorded. Workhouses, Hospitals,
Infirmaries, Asylums, and other establishments into which numbers
of people, and especially of sick people are received, are Public
Institutions for the purpose of these statistics.
5. The deaths which have to be classified in this table (3), and summed up
in the horizontal line of " Totals, " are the whole of those registered
as having actually occurred in the several localities comprised within
the Division or District. But the registered number of deaths
frequently requires correction before it can give an exact view of
the mortality of a Division or District; and the two lowest
horizontal lines are provided for the purpose of enabling Medical
Officers of Health to indicate, to the best of their ability, what the
extent of such corrections should be. Details concerning the
corrective figures, e.g., the institutions that have been considered,
or the particular localities to which corrections apply, may appear
in the text of the leport or in supplementary tables.

In recording the facts under the various headings of Tables 3 and 4,
attention has been given to the notes endorsed on the Tables.