4^2 
Average  death-rates,  etc.,  for  decennium  ending  30  April,  1907 
Parish 
Average  death- 
rate  from 
Malaria 
Average  death- 
rate  from 
Other  causes 
Average  death- 
rate  from 
All  causes 
Average  percen¬ 
tage  of  Malarial 
deaths  to 
Total  deaths 
St.  Thomas  . 
6-5 
i8-5 
25-0 
26- T 
St.  Catherine  . . 
6*2 
19-4 
25-6 
24-4 
Westmoreland  . 
5-9 
15-8 
217 
277 
St.  Mary  . 
5-9 
i8-o 
23-9 
24-6 
Clarendon  . 
5-3 
15-2 
20- S 
23-8 
Portland . 
5-3 
i9'3 
24-6 
21-9 
St.  James  . 
4-8 
17-1 
21-9 
22-3 
Hanover . 
4-8 
19-5 
24-3 
19-9 
St.  Andrew . 
4-0 
239 
27-9 
i4'6 
St.  Ann  . 
3-4 
14-5 
17-9 
19-4 
Trelawny  . 
3-4 
20-8 
24-2 
14-4 
St.  Elizabeth . 
2-9 
iS'6 
18-5 
15-8 
Kingston  . 
2-4 
26-3 
287 
8*6 
Manchester . 
1-6 
14-8 
1 
16-4 
10*0  ] 
4-4 
i8-i 
22-5 
197 
It  will  be  seen  that  for  the  whole  Island  the  death-rate  per  i,ooo 
living,  for  the  ten  years  in  question  was  22-5,  by  no  means  a  high 
one,  as  compared  with  other  tropical  places.  The  death-rate 
attributed  to  malaria  is  4’4  per  1,000,  so  that  had  there  been  no 
malaria  the  death-rate  for  the  Island  would  have  been  only  i8‘i. 
The  proportion  of  deaths  attributed  to  malaria,  to  deaths  from  all 
causes,  is  197  per  cent.,  so  that  very  nearly  one-fifth  of  the  deaths 
in  the  Island  are  caused  by  Malaria. 
The  mean  death-rate  from  malaria,  4'4  per  1,000,  is  thus  by  no 
means  a  high  one  when  compared  with  other  malarious  localities,  for 
example  Mauritius,  where  Professor  Ross  found  that  the  average 
annual  death-rate  from  malaria  was  14*0  per  1,000.  But  the 
satisfaction  which  might  be  derived  from  this  statement  is  very  much 
modified  by  the  fact  to  which  I  have  already  drawn  attention,  namely, 
that  Jamaica  is  largely  a  mountainous  island,  that  in  the  higher  parts 
malaria  is  practically  non-existent,  and  consequently  if  statistics  were 
available  we  would  find  a  very  low  death-rate  from  malaria  over  the 
whole  of  the  centre  of  the  island,  and  a  high  one  in  certain  localities 
along  the  littoral. 
