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The number of births registered in the District amounted to
163, including 86 of males, and 77 of females. To this number
must be added 2 births (1 male and 1 female) which occurred outside
the District, born of parents having a fixed place of residence
in the District. The net number of births was therefore 165,
which gives a Birth-rate of 19.0 per 1,000 of population, as compared
with 22.3 in 1901, 22.2 in 1909, and 19.5 in 1910.
Sixty-one deaths were registered, 30 of males, and 31 of
females. To this number are added the deaths of 17 persons belonging
to the District who died elsewhere, while one death is
deducted of a person dying in the District, and who had a fixed
place of residence outside its area. The nett total of deaths belonging
to the District was 77, giving a Death-rate of 8.8 per
1,000 of population, as compared with 10.2 in 1901, 9.3 in 1909,
and 10.4 in 1910.
Included among the above total of 77 deaths, are 6 attributable
to one or other of the following epidemic diseases :—
Diarrhoea and Enteritis (under two years) 6
Diphtheria —
Measles —
Whooping-cough —
Enteric Fever -
Scarlet Fever —
Small-pox —
Pyrexia of uncertain origin —
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The Infant Mortality, i.e., the number of deaths of infants
under one year of age per 1,000 registered births was 84, as compared
with 90 in 1901, 65 in 1909, and 85 in 1910.
The supervision of the Midwives and other work under the
Midwives Act, 1902, is carried out by the County Medical Officer.
The Notification of Births Act, 1907, is not in force.
In August last I prepared a card giving advice to mothers on
feeding and care of infants, and this was distributed throughout
the District.
The birth-rate in England and Wales in 1911 was 24.4 per
1,000 of the population, which is 0.7 per 1,000 below the rate in
1910, and lower than the rate in any other year on record. Compared
with the average in the ten years 1901-1910 the birth-rate
in 1911 showed a decrease of 2.8 per 1,000.