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1907]
Fourth Quarter.—The mortality returns were remarkably good, as the
deaths, which numbered only 1,276, as against an average of 1,452 in the
fourth quarters of the preceding ten years, were equal to the low annual ratio
of 14.70 per 1,000 of the population, as compared with a mean rate during
1897-1906 of 16.73 per 1,000. Only once previously has such a low death-rate
been recorded at this season of the year, namely in 1903, when it was 14.14 per
1,000.
The favourable mortality among infants which had been experienced in
the third quarter was not maintained, as it rose from 79 to 140 per 1,000 births,
as compared with 129 in the fourth quarter of 1906, and with 141 in the similar
periods of the ten years 1897-1906. The rate was the highest since 1902, when
it was 150, and was exactly the average of the twenty years 1886-1905, a
circumstance of which persons who hold that our infantile mortality rate is
declining should note.
DEATHS.
Table XVII.
Showing the Deaths and Death-Rates of Islington in 1907, and in th
four quarters of the year, of London and the Great Towns during
the same period ; also the mean Borough Death-Rates for the years 1897-06.
Quarter.
Males
Females.
Total.
Death Rates.
Islington,
1907.
Islington,
1897-06.
London,
1907.
76 Great
Towns,
1907.
First
802
838
1,640
18.90
18.19
18.5
19.0
Second
623
601
1,224
14.11
14.32
14.0
14.9
Third
473
466
939
10.82
14.74
11.5
12.2
Fourth
656
620
1,276
14.70
16.73
14.3
15.4
The Year 1907
2,554
2,525
5,079
14.63
16.02
14.6
15.4
1906
2,593
2,457
5,050
14.64
14.63
15.1
15.9
Increase or decrease
—39
+ 68
+ 29
-0.01
-1.39
-0.5
-0.5