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(18)
District of people not belonging to it, which leaves
191 to be added to the 1,197, making a total of 1,388,
and giving an average of 13.93 on the whole population
of 99,582.
The death rate for England and Wales was 17.7.
The comparison of the death rates of various
Districts is of little value unless the whole circumstances
of each are known.
Districts having low birth rates will have also
low death rates.
A birth rate of 20 per 1,000 probably means a
class of population who marry much later in life than
the operative class of a large manufacturing town, a
difference in the mode of life where the mothers are
able to look to the care of the children themselves,
instead of leaving them to the care of others while
they go to work in factories.
The deaths from the seven zymotic diseases were
252, which is less than last year and the year before.
The averages for the last ten years will be seen in
Table 9. With the exception of diarrhoea the
numbers decreased from quarter to quarter.
The deaths that occurred in the Metropolitan
Hospitals were 119, from the following causes:—