Note 63 — THIRD ANNUAL REPORT.

The death-rate to which I particularly refer in the text, and which I cited in my last year’s report, is that of a large district in Northumberland, numbering 27,628 inhabitants, where, during the seven years 1838-44, the mortality was at the rate of only 14 per thousand per annum; and even in this comparatively low proportion a very distinct share might still be called preventable deaths.