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9
Deaths according to age :—
Under 1 year 18
Over 1 year and under 5 years 8
„ 5 years „ 15 „ 3
„ 15„ „25 „ 6
„ 25 „ „ 29
65 and upwards 25
Deaths classified according to causes :—
Enteric 1
Diarrhoea 1
Enteritis 2
Gastritis 1
Phthisis (Pulmonary Tuberculosis) 7
Other Tubercular Diseases 2
Cancer 10
Bronchitis 7
Pneumonia 8
Other Respiratory Diseases 3
Alcoholism 4
Premature Birth 4
Diseases and Accidents of Parturition 2
Heart Diseases 2
Accidents 2
All other causes33
Included in this list are a fair percentage of deaths,
which, without undue optimism, might be classified
amongst the "preventable diseases:—inter alia, Phthisis,
Alcholism, and Premature Birth. As sanitary science becomes
more and more a popular and practical element in
life, we shall hope and expect to see its beneficial effects in
.a gradual improvement in the number of these preventable
deaths. Old ideas and conceptions of disease and health
are one by one vanishing. It is now generally recognized
that human beings must have healthy clean homes to
live in, and that light, ventilation, space, and personal
cleanliness are essential to both moral and physical good
health.
INFANT MORTALITY.
The infant mortality rate deals with the number of
deaths occurring amongst infants from birth to one year
of age in proportion to the number of births registered.
The number of these deaths was 18, yielding an infant
mortality rate of 63.3 per 1000 births. This rate was
72.0 for 1909. The average rate of mortality amongst
infants under one year of age to 1ooo births amounted to
1909 throughout England and Wales for -1909.