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No special action has been taken during the
past year under the Housing of the Working
Classes Act, but its requirements have not been
lost sight of, and I have given close attention to
the condition of dwellings in various parts of the
District, while, as will be seen from the particulars
furnished by the Sanitary Inspector, much
work has been done in the way of repairing and
improving the houses.
VITAL STATISTICS.
Births.
The number of births registered was:—
Boys Girls Total
704 696 1400
including 40 illegitimate births, 14 male and 26
females. This gives a birth-rate of 24.36 per
thousand of the population, which I regret to say,
shows a serious diminution on previous years, as
the following figures show:—1905, 26.44; 1906,
25.45; 1907, 26.18, and 1908, 25.18.
The birth-rate for England and Wales for
the year is 25.6.
Deaths.
617 deaths were registered in the district
during the year, 319 of these being males and
298 females, giving a crude death-rate of 10.73.
To these must be added 77 deaths of residents
of Enfield registered outside the district, and 26
deaths of non-residents occurring in the district
should be subtracted; giving a total of 668
deaths. This gives a recorded death-rate of 11.62;
and a death-rate corrected for age and sex distribution
of 12.22 per 1000, as against 14.5 (the
lowest on record) for England and Wales for the
same period.