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Notes.—This Table is arranged to show the gross births and deaths in the district, and the
births and deaths properly belonging to it with the corresponding rates. For years before 1911
some of the corrected rates probably will not be available. The rates should be calculated per 1,000
of the estimated gross population. In a district in which large Public Institutions for the sick or
infirm seriously affect the statistics, the rates in columns 5 and 13 may be calculated on a nett
population, obtained by deducting from the estimated gross population the average number of
inmates not belonging to the district in such institutions.
In column 6 are to be included the whole of the deaths registered during the year as having
actually occurred within the district.
In column 12 is to be entered the number in column 6, corrected by subtraction of the number
in column 8 and by addition of the number in column 9 Deaths in column 10 are to be similarly
corrected by subtraction of the deaths under 1, included in the number given in column 8, and by
addition of the deaths under 1 included in the number given in column 9.
t The Medical Officer of Health will be able from the returns made to him by the
local Registrar of Deaths, as well as from the quarterly lists furnished by the
Registrar General, to fill in column 8 in accordance with the rule in the next
paragraph below. The Registrar-General, either directly or through the County Medical
Officer of Health, will supply the Medical Officer of Health with the particulars of deaths
to be entered in column 9; and all such deaths must be included in this column, unless
an error is detected, and its correction has been accepted by the Registrar-General.
For column 4 the Registrar-General will furnish to the Medical Officer of Health, a
Statement of the number of births needing to be added to or subtracted from the total
supplied by the local Registrar.
‡ "Transferable Deaths" are deaths of persons who, having a fixed or usual Residence
in England or Wales, die in a district other than that in which they resided. The
deaths of persons without fixed or usual residence, e.g., casuals, must not be included in columns 8
or 9, except in certain instances under 3 (b) below. The Medical Officer of Health will state in
column 8 the number of transferable deaths of " non-residents " which are to be deducted, and will
state in column 9 the number of deaths of "residents" registered outside the district which are to
be added in calculating the nett death-rate of his district.
The following special cases arise as to Transferable Deaths :—
(1) Persons dying in institutions for the sick or infirm, such as hospitals, lunatic asylums,
workhouses, and nursing homes (but not almshouses) must be regarded as residents of the district
in which they had a fixed or usual residence at the time of admission. If the person dying in an
institution had no fixed residence at the time of admission, the death is not transferable. If the
patient has been directly transferred from one such institution to another, the death is transferable
to the district of residence at the time of admission to the first institution.
(2) The deaths of infants born and dying within a year of birth in an institution to which the
mother was admitted for her confinement should be referred to the district of fixed or usual
residence of the parent.
(3) Deaths from Violence are to be referred (a) to the district of residence, under the general
rule ; (b) if this district is unknown, or the deceased had no fixed abode, to the district where the
accident occurred, if known ; (c) failing this, to the district where death occurred, if known ; and
(d) failing this, to the district where the body was found.
Area of District in acres (land and inland water) 2286 3'
Total population at all ages 121,521
Number of inhabited houses 18,766
Average number of persons per house 6. 5
At
Census
of 1911
(cf.
Census,
Vol. 5).